Coming of Age in Franco's Spain: Anti-Fascist Rites of Passage in Sender, Delibes, Laforet, Matute, and Martín Gaite

by Michael D. Thomas

Overview

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain studies the social and psychological damage of the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and identifies an aesthetic of resistance, a portrayal of emerging adults who rebel with courage and caring that even more mature adults do not show.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433124532
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	06/24/2014
Series:	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures , #225
Pages:	133
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael D. Thomas received his PhD at the University of Kansas. He has taught at the University of Houston and is currently professor of Spanish and director, Division of Spanish and Portuguese, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Thomas has done post-doctoral study at Dartmouth, Yale, and the Sorbonne. In 1990, he was named a «Piper Professor» by the Piper Foundation, San Antonio, Texas. In 2001, he published a textbook, ¡De Viva Voz! with McGraw-Hill. He has published extensively on Spanish post-civil war authors, and in addition on Lorca’s theater, the Cantar de mio Cid, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Pepita Jiménez, and San Manuel Bueno, Mártir. His scholarship has appeared in Symposium, Hispania, Romance Quarterly, La corónica, Cauce, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, and others.