Del franquismo a la posmodernidad

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

Después de la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco en 1975, la nueva España democrática le ofrece a la mujer española más libertades. Numerosos autores españoles tratan estos cambios en su obra literaria. En este trabajo examino cinco de ellas: Las edades de Lulú por Almudena Grandes, La pasión turca por Antonio Gala, Con Agatha en Estambul por Cristina Fernández Cubas, El vergel por Josefina Aldecoa y El asesino de los sueños por Concha Alós. Aunque estos autores en su novela reflejan tal emancipación también muestran a unas protagonistas atrapadas en su rol social de mujer. A...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Underrecognized in her own lifetime, the works of Maria Luisa Bombal have been increasingly read and understood as keys to the development of feminist styles, thematics, and thought. This volume includes a collection of scholarly analyses of her creative production, a contextualization of her work and its significance within Latin American letters and feminist literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary texts.