In her words : critical studies on Gloria Fuertes / edited by Margaret H. Persin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Persin, Margaret Helen, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Fuertes, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.

Fuertes, Gloria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During her lifetime Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her Words speaks to the inherent complexity of Gloria Fuertes's poetry, as manifested in its ultimate indeterminacy and undecidability, yet attest to this poet's abiding value as the voice of the marginalized

Contents:

In Her Words; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part I. Identity; Portraits of the Poet in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes; Gloria et al.; Gloria Fuertes: Self-Portraits of a Fertile Spinster; Lesbian Identity: (Dis)appearing Act in Gloria Fuertes's Poetry; Gerontological Poetics in Gloria Fuertes's Posthumous Es dificil ser feliz una tarde; Part II. Discourse; Hearing Voices: Transtextuality and Heteroglossia in Gloria Fuertes's Mujer de verso en pecho; Community and the Privileging of Sound in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes; Poetic Forms and Ideology in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes

Gloria Fuertes's Counterhegemonic Dialogism: A Response to El NacionalcatolicismoGloria Fuertes's Vietnam War Poems: Revising the Elegiac Tradition; Transcending Boundaries: Gloria Fuertes's Poetry for Children and/or Adults; Toward an Ecofeminist Dialogics in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes; Reflections on Gloria Fuertes: Ethics and Community; Gloria Fuertes: Select Bibliography; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-35600-4

1-61148-015-9

1-283-94079-5

OCLC:

845249651