Vidas im/propias : transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa española contemporánea / María Pilar Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, María Pilar, 1964-

Series:

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 19.

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 19

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--Women authors.

Spanish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans.

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Maturation (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Through the analysis of six Spanish novels, one for each decade from the 1940s through the 1990s, Rodriguez proposes a new concept of the novel of feminine development and emphasizes the importance of the voicing of women's sentiments, passions, desires, and opinions that have not been expressed before in the literature of Spain. The study begins with Nada by Carmen Laforet, and continues with La playa de los locos, by Elena Soriano, La placa del Diamant, by Merce Rodoreda, two stories from Te dejo el mar, by Carme Riera, Los perros de Hecate, by Carmen Gomez Ojea, and Efectos secundarios by Luisa Etxenike.

In these texts, "la mujer espanola" of the Franco period's official discourse -- woman as wife and mother as the most desirable possibilities of realization and development -- is deconstructed into a multitude of vital, affective, and sexual options that confront this domestic image. These novels highlight the diversity of the feminine experience in the twentieth century and encourage us to question models of development that are monolithic and dogmatic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.

ISBN:

1557531641

OCLC:

42597654