Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book

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Combining biography and bibliography with literary criticism inclined towards feminist theory, this volume profiles and analyzes 50 significant female Spanish writers. Some celebrated, some overlooked, they date from the 14th century to the present. The volume includes poets, fiction writers, dramatists and essayists. Lives and works are examined with reference to complex issues surrounding gender, creativity and social mores. Partly informed by findings of the 50 contributors, the compilers have also provided an introduction which interprets "herstory" in terms of Spanish culture. They compare the struggle for identity and artistic expression in a world putatively governed by gender, to balancing on a tightrope. Extensive bibliographies for each writer record original works, modern editions and translations, and criticism. A general bibliography selects sources relevant to Spanish women writers and gender-related topics.

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.,."this quality work is recommended primarily for graduate and research collections."-Library Journal
...this quality work is recommended primarily for graduate and research collections.-Library Journal
Spanish Women Writers differs from similar works in providing painstakingly researched in-depth overview assessments and includes many authors not covered by the above titles. The well-written essays represent a variety of viewpoints, and the work clearly fills a bibliographic gap in Spanish literature for both newer writers and established authors revisited. It deserves a place in all such collections, especially for English-reading audiences.-RQ Summer 1994
..."this quality work is recommended primarily for graduate and research collections."-Library Journal
"Spanish Women Writers differs from similar works in providing painstakingly researched in-depth overview assessments and includes many authors not covered by the above titles. The well-written essays represent a variety of viewpoints, and the work clearly fills a bibliographic gap in Spanish literature for both newer writers and established authors revisited. It deserves a place in all such collections, especially for English-reading audiences."-RQ Summer 1994

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LINDA GOULD LEVINE is Professor of Spanish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she also teaches Women's Studies. She has published critical studies on the Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo as well as feminist criticism on numerous contemporary women authors of Spain and Latin America, including Ana Maria Moix, Carmen Martin Gaite, Esther Tusquests, and Isabel Allende. With Gloria Feiman Waldman, she is coauthor of Feminismo ante el franguismo: Entrevistas con feministas de Espana. ELLEN ENGELSON MARSON is Associate Professor of Spanish at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish poets, among them, Jose Angel Valente, Ana Maria Moix, and the novisimos, and is the author of Poesia poetica de Jose Angel Valente. Her current work explores the relationship between gender consciousness and poetic expression in contemporary women poets from Spain. GLORIA FEIMAN WALDMAN is Chair of the Foreign Languages Department and Professor of Spanish at York College, CUNY, where she also teaches Women's Studies and Latin American Studies. She has published a critical study on the Puerto Rican writer, Luis Radael Sanchez, and translations and articles on feminist criticism and contemporary Latin American theater. With Nora Glickman, she has competed an anthology on the presence of the Jew in the Argentine theater.