Romance and exemplarity in post-war Spanish women's narratives / Nino Kebadze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kebadze, Nino, 1975-

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 279.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 279

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--Women authors.

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

Politics and literature--Spain--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Women and literature--Spain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Literature and society.

History.

Spain.

Literature and society--Spain--History--20th century.

Women in literature.

Spain--History--1939-1975.

Physical Description:

xi, 187 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2009.

Summary:

The effects of General Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule (1939-1975) on the production and reception of cultural texts can be gauged by the silence that now surrounds them. This is especially true of works which enjoyed considerable popularity when first published. Most of the novels in question belong to the sentimental genre known as novela rosa, whose authors-mostly women-and heroines Academe has consistently treated as literary pariahs. BR>This volume represents the first serious effort to question the categories used to assess the value and meaning of texts previously presumed to be devoid of both. It does so by bringing to the fore the operative premise of Francoist cultural politics, wherein fictional works have the power to mould individual character and conduct. Narratives by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll are thus examined in terms of the effects that they were expected to have on their readers, and the constraints that such expectations placed on the works' production and reception. The result is a paradox: while the study of women's bestselling novels is by definition a study of the constraints that shape them, careful reading reveals the limitations of those selfsame constraints. NINO KEBADZE is an Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-181) and index.

ISBN:

9781855661929

1855661926

OCLC:

427612702