Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book

by Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Marson, Gloria Waldman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313268236
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/25/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

LINDA GOULD LEVINE is Professor of Spanish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she also teaches Women's Studies. She has published critical studies on the Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo as well as feminist criticism on numerous contemporary women authors of Spain and Latin America, including Ana Maria Moix, Carmen Martin Gaite, Esther Tusquests, and Isabel Allende. With Gloria Feiman Waldman, she is coauthor of Feminismo ante el franguismo: Entrevistas con feministas de Espana.

ELLEN ENGELSON MARSON is Associate Professor of Spanish at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish poets, among them, Jose Angel Valente, Ana Maria Moix, and the novisimos, and is the author of Poesia poetica de Jose Angel Valente. Her current work explores the relationship between gender consciousness and poetic expression in contemporary women poets from Spain.

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. She has published a critical study on the Puerto Rican writer, Luis Radael Sanchez, and translations and articles on feminist criticism and contemporary Latin American theater. With Nora Glickman, she has competed an anthology on the presence of the Jew in the Argentine theater.

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 Acuña by María del Carmen Simón Palmer
Caterina Albert i Paradís ("Victor Català") by Teresa M. Vilarós
Concha Alós by Ada Ortúzar-Young
Josefa Amar y Borbón by Constance A. Sullivan
Concepción Arenal by Estelle Irizarry
María Victoria Atencia by Sharon Keefe Ugalde
Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber y Larrea) by Martha J. Manier
Maria Aurèlia Capmany by Barbara Dale May
Ana Caro Mallén de Soto by Amy Kaminsky
Teresa de Cartagena by Ronald E. Surtz
Rosalía 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 Falcón O'Neill by Gloria Feiman Waldman
Angela Figuera Aymerich by John C. Wilcox
Gloria Fuertes by Ellen Engelson Marson
Adelaida García Morales by Yvonne Jehenson
Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer by Maryellen Bieder
Clara Janés by Anne M. Pasero
Carmen Laforet by Roberta Johnson
María Teresa León by Beth Wietelmann Bauer
Leonor López de Córdova by Theresa Ann Sears
Marcela de San Félix (Sor Marcela) by Electa Arenal
María de San José (Maria de Salazar) by Stacey Schlau
Carmen Martín Gaite by Joan Lipman Brown
María Martínez Sierra ("Gregorio Martínez Sierra") by Alda Blanco
Ana María Matute by María Carmen Riddel
Julia Maura by Patricia W. O'Connor
Marina Mayoral by Concha Alborg
Ana María Moix by Linda Gould Levine
Rosa Montero by Kathleen M. Glenn
Margarita Nelken y Mausberger by Eleanore Maxwell Dial
Teresa Pàgamies by Janet Pérez
Emilia Pardo Bazán by Ruth El Saffar
Paloma Pedrero by Iride Lamartina-Lens
Soledad Puértolas by Mary Jane Treacy
Carme Riera by Margery Resnick
Mercàge Rodoreda by Nancy Vosburg
Montserrat Roig by Geraldine Cleary Nichols
Concha Romero by John P. Gabriele
Ana Rossetti by Nancy L. Bundy
Faustina Sáez de Melgar by Cristina Emríquez de Dalamanca
María del Pilar Sinués de Marco by Catherine Jagoe
Teresa de Jesús by Alison Weber
Esther Tusquets by Mirella Servodidio
María 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

Editorial Reviews

The editors have compiled 50 essays written by established Hispanists on six centuries of women writers in Spain. The format of each entry is fixed (biography, major themes, survey of criticism, and bibliography of works by and about each writer), with the length averaging several pages. Well-known authors (e.g., Carmen Laforet, Emilia Pardo Bazn, Teresa de Jess) appear with the lesser-known (e.g., Mara de Zayas, Concepcin Gimeno, Merce Rodoreda), and Catalonia is well represented. The introduction to the work is essential to understanding the feminist critical approach that informs the essays, making the important point that subterfuge and camouflage were devices necessarily and commonly employed by women writers in order to succeed in creating and publishing in the dominant male culture. Similar to the more encyclopedic Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide (Greenwood, 1986), this quality work is recommended primarily for graduate and research collections.-Charles E. Perry, East Central Univ., Ada, Okla.

Library Journal

Combining biography, bibliography, and original literary criticism oriented toward feminist theory, this volume profiles and analyzes 50 significant women writers of Spain--poets, fiction writers, dramatists, and essayists--from the 14th century to the present. Extensive bibliographies for each writer document original works, modern editions and translations, and criticism; a general bibliography selects valuable sources pertaining to Spanish women writers and gender-related topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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