Women in the Spanish Novel Today

Kyra A. Kietrys is an assistant professor of Spanish at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Montserrat Linares is an associate professor of Spanish at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reflecting the SelfKyra A. Kietrys and Montserrat Linares      PART I. POSTWAR WRITERSCarmen Martín Gaite’s Irse de casa or the Metafictional Creation of the SelfVilma Navarro-Daniels      Space and the Construction of the Self in the Narratives of Josefina AldecoaCarmen T. Sotomayor      PART II. GENERATION OF THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACYHistoria de un abrigo: Women’s Search for an Anchor in the Modern WorldJoanne Lucena      Naturalism and the Self in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbalEllen Mayock      Women, War, and Words in La voz dormida by Dulce ChacónKathryn Everly      The Wounded Self and Body in Dulce Chacón’s Algún amor que no mate: A Haunting DiscourseEsther Raventós-Pons      Female Characters in the Novels of Clara Sánchez: Reflection and MirageMary Ann Dellinger      PART III. NEW WRITERS OF THE 1990SLooking for the Other: Peninsular Women’s Fiction after LevinasNina L. Molinaro      Revaluing the Mother in Lucía Etxebarria’s Un milagro en equilibrioSandra J. Schumm      Negotiating Girlhood: Mediating Bodies and Identities in Novels by Care SantosParissa Tadrissi      The Elusive Self in Eugenia Rico’s La muerte blancaKyra A. Kietrys      Fragmented Identities: The Narrative World of Espido FreireMontserrat Linares      About the Contributors      Index

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