Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen IdolsBeth Miller The topics covered by this pioneering collection of essays range from peninsular Spanish to Latin American literature, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries, and from the subject of women as portrayed in Hispanic literature to the literature of Hispanic women writers. Some pieces present polemical feminist arguments, other are more traditional. All the contributors use their subject to take new stands on old controversies, ask new questions, and reevaluate important aspects of Hispanic literature. While there is ample evidence in these essays of the dual archetype in Hispanic literature of women as icon and woman as fallen idol, the collection reaches beyond these stereotypes to more complex sociological and theoretical concerns. Although such research has ben abundantly pursued by scholars of English and American literature, it has been notably absent from Hispanic studies. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to its subject and a stimulus to further work in the area. Contributors: Fernando Alegría Electa Arenal Julianne Burton Alan Deyermond Rosalie Gimeno Harriet Goldberg Estelle Irizarry Kathleen Kish Luis Leal Linda Gould Levine Melveena McKendrick Francine Masiello Beth Miller Elizabeth Ordóñez Rachel Phillips Marcia L. Welles This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Spains First Women Writers | 27 |
Echoes of the Amazon Myth in Medieval Spanish Literature | 53 |
Sexual Humor in Misogynist Medieval Exempla | 67 |
Women in the Book of Good Love | 84 |
Masks and Shadows | 97 |
The Reluctant Brides of Golden Age Drama | 115 |
Two Hispanic Nuns of the Seventeenth Century | 147 |
Female Archetypes in Mexican Literature | 227 |
The Contradictions of Literary Feminism | 243 |
Female and Male in Lorcas Tragedies | 259 |
The Changing Face of Woman in Latin American Fiction | 280 |
Woman as Author and Character in Francos Spain | 289 |
Sexual Politics and the Theme of Sexuality in Chicana Poetry | 316 |
The Metamorphosis of Buiiuels Tristana | 340 |
Contributors | 361 |
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