Spanish women writers and the essay : gender, politics, and the self / edited with an introduction by Kathleen M. Glenn and Mercedes Mazquiarán de Rodríguez.

Other author Glenn, Kathleen Mary.
Other author Mazquiarán de Rodríguez, Mercedes.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1998.
Descriptionix, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Spanish essays--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Literature and society--Spain.

Contents Concepción Arenal and the essay of advocacy : "the medium is the message" / Estelle Irizarry -- Women, literature, and society : the essays of Emilia Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder -- Carmen de Burgos ("Colombine") : feminist Avant la lettre / Michael Ugarte -- A las mujeres de España : the feminist essays of María Martínez Sierra / Alda Blanco -- Margarita Nelken's La condicíon social de la mujer en España : between the pedagogic and the performative / Mary Lee Bretz -- Woman, eros, and culture : the essays of Rosa Chacel / Shirley Mangini -- Circunstancia, reason, and metaphysics : context and unity in the thought of María Zambrano / Janet Pérez -- Narrative theory in the mother tongue : Carmen Martín Gaite's Desde la ventana and El cuento de nunca acabar / Emilie L. Bergmann -- On post-transition politics, Picardía, and power : Lidia Falcón's El alboroto español / Nancy Vosburg -- Essay, memory, and testimony in Montserrat Roig / Christina Dupláa -- Beyond fiction : voicing the personal in Soledad Puértolas's La vida oculta / Mercedes Mazquiarán de Rodríguez -- From struggle to commitment : the essays of Rosa Montero / Elena Gascón Vera.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.
LCCN 98022792
ISBN0826211771 (alk. paper)