Character and Gender in Contemporary Catalan Literature

The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today. This volume contributes to the analysis of those past views on gender as they appear through the lense of contemporary Catalan literature.

Autorentext

Adolf Piquer Catalan at the University of Salamanca (Spain) from 1993 to 2009, and is currently the chairperson of the Department of Philology and European Cultures at Jaume I University (Castelló, Spain), where he is a professor of Catalan studies and conducts research on narrative analysis - novels and stories specially - and comparative literature.

Adéla Köátková is a linguist at Jaume I University and the University of Valencia, Spain. She does interdisciplinary research between humanities (linguistics and literature) and the health sciences. Her areas of interest are Catalan Studies, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis in Healthcare Communication, Corpus Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics.

Inhalt

Adéla Koátková : Literary Discourse, Characters and Gender Studies Maria Dasca : 'Ser tota ulls'. The Visual Imagination of Mila and Natàlia, the Two Major Characters of Caterina Albert/Víctor Català and Mercè Rodoreda Carles Cortés : Imaginary Women in Mercè Rodoreda's Fiction M. Àngels Francés Díez : Women-in-process: Isabel Clara Simó, Montserrat Roig and Carme Riera's Female Characters Vicent Salvador : The Desired Woman: Portraits of Women in the Poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez : Poems, Diaries and Masks: Joan Ferraté Azucena Trincado Murugarren : On Sexual Difference and Lesbianism in Eva Baltasar's Novels Permagel (2019) and Boulder (2020) Meri Torras Francès : Demystification of (Lesbian) Romantic Love and Estrangement in Motherhood: Eva Baltasar's Lonely Protagonists Ramon X. Rosselló : Rewriting Female Characters in Contemporary Catalan Theatre: Phaedra and Antigone Àlex Martín Escribà : Teresa Solana or How to X-ray Catalan Society through Crime Diana Nastasescu : Two (Non-)adulterous Women: Cécile St. Arnaud and Isabel de Galceran Juan MartínezGil : Trans Characters in Valencian Narrative in the 1970s and 1980s Adolf Piquer : Forgotten Voices: From the Brothel to Literature .