Women in Hispanic Literature : Icons and Fallen Idols / Beth Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Beth, 1910- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1983]

Summary:

The topics covered by this pioneering collection of essays range from peninsular Spanish to Latin American literature, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries, and from the subject of women as portrayed in Hispanic literature to the literature of Hispanic women writers. Some pieces present polemical feminist arguments, other are more traditional. All the contributors use their subject to take new stands on old controversies, ask new questions, and reevaluate important aspects of Hispanic literature. While there is ample evidence in these essays of the dual archetype in Hispanic literature of women as icon and woman as fallen idol, the collection reaches beyond these stereotypes to more complex sociological and theoretical concerns. Although such research has ben abundantly pursued by scholars of English and American literature, it has been notably absent from Hispanic studies. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to its subject and a stimulus to further work in the area. Contributors: Fernando Alegría Electa Arenal Julianne Burton Alan Deyermond Rosalie Gimeno Harriet Goldberg Estelle Irizarry Kathleen Kish Luis Leal Linda Gould Levine Melveena McKendrick Francine Masiello Beth Miller Elizabeth Ordóñez Rachel Phillips Marcia L. Welles This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Some Theoretical Considerations

Spain's First Women Writers

Echoes of the Amazon Myth in Medieval Spanish Literature

Sexual Humor in Misogynist Medieval Exempla

Women in the Book of Good Love

Marina/Malinche: Masks and Shadows

Women Against Wedlock: The Reluctant Brides of Golden Age Drama

The Convent as Catalyst for Autonomy: Two Hispanic Nuns of the Seventeenth Century

A School for Wives: Women in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Theater

Gertrude the Great: Avellaneda, Nineteenth-Century Feminist

Notes Toward a Definition of Gabriela Mistral's Ideology

Female Archetypes in Mexican Literature

Sara de Etcheverts: The Contradictions of Literary Feminism

The Greatest Punishment: Female and Male in Lorca's Tragedies

The Changing Face of Woman in Latin American Fiction

The Censored Sex: Woman as Author and Character in Franco's Spain

Sexual Politics and the Theme of Sexuality in Chicana Poetry

From Mistress to Murderess: The Metamorphosis of Buiiuel's Tristana

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-37888-1

OCLC:

1443483355