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This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well
as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on
"transition" in women's lives, we present research on women who
have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well
as emotional, sexual, cultural and linguistic boundaries. The
international approach brings together different cultures and
genres in order to emphasize the links and connections that bind
women together, rather than those which separate them. The chapters
consider the ways in which the changes and transitions women
undergo influence the world we live in. We are particularly
interested in the idea of crossing borders and how this influences
identity and belonging, and the theme of crossing boundaries in the
context of motherhood as well as sexual orientation. The topic is
timely given the waves of migration all around the world in recent
times. The contributors deal with issues central to contemporary
life, such as gender equality and women's empowerment, as well as
understanding women's identities and being sensitive to fluid
concepts of gender and sexuality.
Blanco examines the relationship between life-writing in Martin
Gaite's notebooks and her fictional work. Carmen Martin Gaite
(1925-2000) was one of the most important Spanish writers of the
second half of the twentieth century. From the 1940s, until her
death in 2000, she published short stories, novels, poetry, drama,
children literature and cultural and historical studies. This book
studies life writing in Martin Gaite's notebooks Cuadernos de todo
(2002) and her novels of the 1990s, Nubosidad variable (1992), La
Reina de las nieves (1994), Lo raro es vivir (1996) and Irse de
casa (1998). It looks at the use of first person narration in
Martin Gaite's work, drawing a parallel between the notebooks and
her fictional work. It further analyses the waythe author's
notebooks relate to the development of her later novels as well as
the use of writing as therapy. This work offers a way of looking at
Carmen Martin Gaite's work from a personal and intimate
perspective. Maria-Jose Blanco Lopez de Lerma is Spanish Lecturer
and Language Tutor at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese &
Latin-American Studies, King's College London.
The social and cultural changes of the last century have
transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from
view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the
professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this
collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our
lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an
interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial
customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the
Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in
crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of
death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a
look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By
studying and considering how death is thought about in the
contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our
lives.
The social and cultural changes of the last century have
transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from
view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the
professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this
collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our
lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an
interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial
customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the
Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in
crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of
death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a
look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By
studying and considering how death is thought about in the
contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our
lives.
Women have often chosen to tell their secrets, confide their dreams
and express their deepest and most intimate thoughts in diaries,
letters and other forms of life-writing. Although it is well
established as a genre in the Anglophone and Francophone
traditions, there has been very little publication of life-writing
in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds and even less scholarly
criticism has appeared. This collection of essays is the first
volume to focus on the variety of women's life-writing in the
Luso-Hispanic world. The authors analyse women who have written or
expressed their sense of identity through diaries, autobiographies,
biographies, memoirs, travel writing and poetry, as well as forms
of visual art, examining how they represent themselves and others.
The volume brings together critics and academics working in Europe
and the Americas who are engaging with the work of women from
different countries, produced in locations ranging from a
sixteenth-century convent to a twenty-first-century kitchen. The
book responds to a range of different literary genres as well as
reaching beyond literature to analyse women's self-representation
through painting, drawing and collage.
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