Synopses & Reviews
Combining assiduous attention to biography and bibliography with original literary criticism oriented toward feminist theory, this volume profiles and analyzes fifty significant women writers of Spain--some celebrated and some overlooked--from the fourteenth century to the present. The work includes poets, fiction writers, dramatists, and essayists. Lives and works are examined with reference to complex issues surrounding gender, creativity, and social mores. Partly informed by findings of the fifty contributing scholars, Levine and Marson have also provided a volume introduction interpreting herstory in terms of Spanish culture, likening the struggle for identity and artistic expression in an engendered world to balancing on a tightrope. Extensive bibliographies for each writer document original works, modern editions and translations, and criticism; and a general bibliography selects valuable sources pertaining to Spanish women writers and gender-related topics.
Review
...this quality work is recommended primarily for graduate and research collections.Library Journal
Synopsis
"...The well-written essays represent a variety of viewpoints, and the work clearly fills a bibliographic gap in Spanish literature for both newer writers and established authors revisited. It deserves a place in all such collections, especially for English-reading audiences." RQ
About the Author
LINDA GOULD LEVINE is Professor of Spanish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she also teaches Women's Studies.ELLEN ENGELSON MARSON is Associate Professor of Spanish at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.GLORIA FEIMAN WALDMAN is Chair of the Foreign Languages Department and Professor of Spanish at York College, CUNY, where she also teaches Women's Studies and Latin American Studies.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: View From a Tightrope: Six Centuries of Spanish Women Writers by Linda Gould Levine and Ellen Engelson Marson
Rosario de Acuna by Maria del Carmen Simon Palmer
Caterina Albert i Paradis ("Victor Catala") by Teresa M. Vilaros
Concha Alos by Ada Ortuzar-Young
Josefa Amar y Borbon by Constance A. Sullivan
Concepcion Arenal by Estelle Irizarry
Maria Victoria Atencia by Sharon Keefe Ugalde
Fernan Caballero (Cecilia Bohl de Faber y Larrea) by Martha J. Manier
Maria Aurelia Capmany by Barbara Dale May
Ana Caro Mallen de Soto by Amy Kaminsky
Teresa de Cartagena by Ronald E. Surtz
Rosalia de Castro by Kathleen N. March
Carolina Coronado by Susan Kirkpatrick
Leonor de la Cueva y Silva by Teresa S. Soufas
Rosa Chacel by Shirley Mangini
Ernestina de Champourcin by Joy B. Landeira
Carmen de Burgos ("Colombine") by Elizabeth Starcevic
Ana Diosdado by Phyllis Zatlin
Lidia Falcon O'Neill by Gloria Feiman Waldman
Angela Figuera Aymerich by John C. Wilcox
Gloria Fuertes by Ellen Engelson Marson
Adelaida Garcia Morales by Yvonne Jehenson
Concepcion Gimeno de Flaquer by Maryellen Bieder
Clara Janes by Anne M. Pasero
Carmen Laforet by Roberta Johnson
Maria Teresa Leon by Beth Wietelmann Bauer
Leonor Lopez de Cordova by Theresa Ann Sears
Marcela de San Felix (Sor Marcela) by Electa Arenal
Maria de San Jose (Maria de Salazar) by Stacey Schlau
Carmen Martin Gaite by Joan Lipman Brown
Maria Martinez Sierra ("Gregorio Martinez Sierra") by Alda Blanco
Ana Maria Matute by Maria Carmen Riddel
Julia Maura by Patricia W. O'Connor
Marina Mayoral by Concha Alborg
Ana Maria Moix by Linda Gould Levine
Rosa Montero by Kathleen M. Glenn
Margarita Nelken y Mausberger by Eleanore Maxwell Dial
Teresa Pagamies by Janet Perez
Emilia Pardo Bazan by Ruth El Saffar
Paloma Pedrero by Iride Lamartina-Lens
Soledad Puertolas by Mary Jane Treacy
Carme Riera by Margery Resnick
Mercage Rodoreda by Nancy Vosburg
Montserrat Roig by Geraldine Cleary Nichols
Concha Romero by John P. Gabriele
Ana Rossetti by Nancy L. Bundy
Faustina Saez de Melgar by Cristina Emriquez de Dalamanca
Maria del Pilar Sinues de Marco by Catherine Jagoe
Teresa de Jesus by Alison Weber
Esther Tusquets by Mirella Servodidio
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor by Marcia L. Welles and Mary S. Gossy
Selected Bibliography
Appendix I: List of Authors by Date of Birth
Appendix II: Works Available in English Translation
Title Index
Subject Index