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Antigone's Daughters? : Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611480030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Antigone's Daughters?DDC classification:
  • 869.09
LOC classification:
  • PQ9033 -- .O82 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Antigone's Daughters? -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Florbela Espanca and Female Genius: Alone of All Her Sex? -- 2. Irene Lisboa: Minding the Gender Gap -- 3. The Case of the Missing Body: Allegories of Authorship in Agustina Bessa Luís -- 4. Matriarchal Precedents: Thus Spoke Natália Correia -- 5. Giving Up Whose Ghost in the Works of Hélia Correia? -- 6. Sexual/Textual Re-Visions in Lídia Jorge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: I>Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu's, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L'dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving institutional acceptance and validation in the Portuguese national canon at different points in the 20th century.
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Antigone's Daughters? -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Florbela Espanca and Female Genius: Alone of All Her Sex? -- 2. Irene Lisboa: Minding the Gender Gap -- 3. The Case of the Missing Body: Allegories of Authorship in Agustina Bessa Luís -- 4. Matriarchal Precedents: Thus Spoke Natália Correia -- 5. Giving Up Whose Ghost in the Works of Hélia Correia? -- 6. Sexual/Textual Re-Visions in Lídia Jorge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

I>Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu's, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L'dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving institutional acceptance and validation in the Portuguese national canon at different points in the 20th century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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