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In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature."
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature.
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish
women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change,
and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly
contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their
consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as
political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and
spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until
World War II. The contributors study women as agents and
representations of social change in a variety of genres, including
short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic
pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo
Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside
lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez,
Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The
critical analyses are situated within their specific
socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by
Rutgers University Press.
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish
women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change,
and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly
contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their
consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as
political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and
spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until
World War II. The contributors study women as agents and
representations of social change in a variety of genres, including
short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic
pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo
Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside
lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez,
Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The
critical analyses are situated within their specific
socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by
Rutgers University Press.
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to
write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines,
intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in
Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses,
the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war. Reshaping the
current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in
Spain's fin de siecle, this book examines works by notable writers
- including Rosario de Acuna, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcion
Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of
Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and
World War I. The selected works foreground how women's
representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations
of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the
works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the
Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and
racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these
texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of
femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the
militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.
Christine Arkinstall's historical and literary study of female
freethinking intellectuals in fin-de-siecle Spain examines the
contributions of three intellectuals, Amalia Domingo Soler, Angeles
Lopez de Ayala, and Belen Sarraga, to the development of feminist
consciousness and democracy. These women wrote for, edited, and
published radical and feminist periodicals that, until now, have
been left unstudied. This significant gap in the scholarship has
left us without an accurate sense of Spanish women's involvement in
the public realm. Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking
Press, 1879-1926 recovers the lost history and literary
contributions these women made to the so-called Generation of 1898.
Using their extensive published works, Arkinstall not only
illuminates the lives of Domingo Soler, Lopez de Ayala, and
Sarraga, but traces the connections between feminism, freethinking,
republicanism, freemasonry, anarchism, and socialism. By placing
these women's work in the broader literary, social, and political
context of the period, Arkinstall's study makes a major
contribution to our understanding of the central role of women in
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century democracy in Spain.
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