Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000)

Ellen Mayock is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches courses in Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia honored Mayock with an Outstanding Faculty Award in 2010. In 2019, Georgetown University Press published Mayock’s co-authored (with Mary Ann Dellinger and Beatriz Trigo) textbook, Indagaciones. Introducción a los Estudios Culturales hispanos. Author of The ‘Strange Girl’ in Twentieth-Century Spanish Novels Written by Women (2004) and Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace (2016), Mayock focuses her research on workplace fairness, Title IX, gender-based violence, and historical memory. She is co-editor of three volumes of essays. Mayock also writes poetry and creative non-fiction in English and Spanish. She is currently working on a memoir titled Small Town Feminist and on several translation projects. Debra Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). She has published various articles on contemporary Spanish cultural production in journals such as Letras Femeninas, Letras Hispanas, Confluencia, and the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Additionally, she has also published in the anthologies Beyond the Backroom: New Perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite (2011) and European Film and Television: Crisis Narratives and Narratives of Crisis (2018). In 2018, she co-edited the volume "Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium." Currently, she is writing a manuscript that examines contemporary films through a transatlantic lens, titled Visions of Nueva York in Contemporary Iberian Films. Her publications on Carmen Martín Gaite include analyses of Visión de Nueva York and Caperucita en Manhattan. Additionally, she has used Martín Gaite’s writing about the chica rara and the novela rosa as a critical lens in publications about Concha Alós and Lucía Etxebarría.

• Note on the ContributorsList of FiguresIntroduction: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Conversations Across GenresEllen Mayock and Debra J. OchoaCarmen Martín Gaite’s Combinations of Literary Genres: Towards an Open Narration * José Teruel*Double Epiphany in “Un día de libertad” (1953): Between Freedom and CommitmentNuria Cruz-CámaraWeaving Threads: A Rereading of Carmen Martín Gaite’s Short StoriesEster Bautista and Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez“Usted quiere verse guapa, ¿verdad?”: Advertising Discourse versus Literary Discourse. Metaliterary Reading of Carmen Martín Gaite’s Short Story “Tarde de tedio”Chiara LicciThe Voice of the Self and Metaliterature in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Short Story “Flores malva”Maria Vittoria CalviIconicity and Implicit Self-Referentiality in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Poem “Desembocadura” (1947)Itzíar López GuilFeminist Moves and Memories in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Poetry Collection, A rachasEllen MayockReading Backwards and Forwards: Carmen Martín Gaite as Translator of Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva FigesGareth WoodThe Journey Toward the Non-Place from Carmen Martín Gaite’s “Callejón de salida” and Entre visillos (1958) to La hermana pequeña (1959)Debra J. OchoaTwo Television Scripts by Carmen Martín Gaite: Teresa de Jesús and Celia as “Chicas Raras,” “Willful Women,” and “Killjoys”Mercedes Carbayo Abengózar“No me pidáis que vuelva.” Second-Person Plural in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Poetry: A Narrative HypothesisBelén GopeguiCarmiña (Original Play in Spanish, with English Translation by Debra J. Ochoa and Ellen Mayock)Noelia Adánez