Mirror, mirror on the page
Subtitle: identity and subjectivity in Spanish women's poetry (1975-2000)
By: W. Michael Mudrovic.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780934223843
Subjects: Spanish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Spanish poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Women in literature
Description: "Spanish poetry written by women began to flourish in the years following the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 and continued well through the next two decades. Mirror, Mirror on the Page proffers an in-depth investigation of works by eight poets to demonstrate the function of the page as mirror." "Some of the works chosen for analysis are "canonical" texts in twentieth-century Spanish poetry, whereas others are less well known and less widely distributed in the lyric context. All exemplify different tendencies synchronically while tracing a diachronic shift in emphasis as women's position in democratic Spain has evolved and grown."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-382) and index.
Table of contents: title: The page as mirror; title: The ekphrastic mirror : María Victoria Atencia's Marta & María; title: Playing dress-up in funhouse mirrors : Ana Rossetti's Los devaneos de Erato; title: The shattered mirror : grief, madness, and identity in Blanca Andreu's De una niña de provincias; title: The female eunuch : Luisa Castro's Los versos del eunuco; title: The mirror as male gaze : Almudena Guzmán's Usted; title: The abandoned woman : Margarita Merino's Baladas del abismo; title: Double-voicing, double-vision : Amalia Bautista's Cárcel de amor; title: The two-way mirror : Maite Pérez Larumbe's Mi nombre verdadero; title: Toward future studies.