Gender, class, and nation
Subtitle: Merce Rodoreda and the subjects of modernism
By: Christine R. Arkinstall.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Bucknell Univ Pr
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Rodoreda, Mercè, 1908- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Modernism (Literature) -- Spain -- Catalonia.; Literature and society -- Spain -- Catalonia.
Description: "The work of Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983) occupies a hallowed place in Spanish and Catalan literary canons. To date, however, little attention has been paid to Rodoreda as a modernist writer. This study situates her work within Catalan, Spanish, and European modernisms - a reading that modifies many premises pertaining to her production and accepted modernist frameworks. Constantly foregrounded is Rodoreda's negotiation of the overlapping categories of gender, class, modes of representation, and national identities: the subjects at the core of modernist thought. Prominent are theories relevant to cultural materialism, cultural histories of modernist Catalunya, Spain, and Europe, feminist thought, and the visual arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: A matter of honor : "cooking up" Don Juan in Sóc una dona honrada?; title: Embattled systems : Catalan culture, politics, and the avant-garde in Un día de la vida d'un home; title: Mountains, monsters, and maidens without hands : Víctor Català's Solitud, Egeni D'Ors's Gualba, la de mil veus, and Mercè Rodoreda's Del que hom no pot fugir; title: Walking the republic of letters : Aloma and El carrer de les camèlies; title: Charting the tides of reality : Mirall trencat; title: Myth, history, and contemporary nationalisms : La mort i la primavera.