Queer women in modern Spanish literature : activism, sexuality, and the otherness of the "chicas raras" / edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simón-Alegre, Ana I., editor.

Charnon-Deutsch, Lou, editor.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory.

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings and social activism addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are not commonly associated with each other, but whose voices overlap, allowing us to foreground their unconventionality, their relationships to each other, and their relation to modernity. The objective of this volume is to explore how the idea of "queerness" played an important role in the personal lives and social activism of these writers, as well as in the unconventional and nonconformist characters they created in their work. Together, the essays demonstrate that the concept of "queer women" is useful for investigating the evolution of women's writing and sexual identity during the period of Spain's fitful transition to modernity in the 19th century. The concept of queerness in its many meanings points to the idea of non-normativity and gender dissidence that encompasses how women intellectuals experienced friendship, religion, sex, sexuality, and gender. The works examined include autobiography, poetry, memoir, salon chronicles, short and long fiction, pedagogical essays, newspaper articles, theater, and letters. In addition to exploring the significant presence of queer women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish literature and culture, the essays examine the reasons why the voices of Spanish women authors have been culturally silenced. One thrust in this collection explores generational transitions of Spanish writers from the romantics and their "hermandad lrica" ("lyrical sisterhood") through to "las Sinsombrero" ("Women Without Hats"), and finally, current Spanish writers linked to the LGBTQ+ community.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction: From "Chicas Raras" to Queer Women in Modern Spanish Culture

Chapter 1 Nineteenth-Century Women Activists: Concepción Arenal's Cross-Dressing 1

Chapter 2 Women Moved by the Spirit: Spiritism and Early Feminism in Spain

Chapter 3 Queer Literary Friendships in Salons: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, Carmen de Burgos, and Others 1

Chapter 4 Concha de Albornoz: Exception, Dandy, and Character

Chapter 5 The Dissidence Inside Her Closet: Elena Fort ú n versus Encarnación Aragon é s Urquijo

Chapter 6 Celia, Elena Fortún's Queer New Girl

Chapter 7 The Unsuspected Truth: Abjection and Queer Narration in Nada

Chapter 8 Trickster Women: Exploring Gender Identity and Sexuality with Txus Garc í a and Hannah Gadsby

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-309738-3

1-000-48827-6

1-000-48831-4

1-003-09738-3

9781003097389

OCLC:

1281985121