Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels: Rewriting the Matriarchal Archetype - Hardcover

Schumm, Sandra J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611483581 ISBN 13: 9781611483581

Verlag: Bucknell University Press, 2011

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In her second work on post-Franco Spanish women's fiction, Sandra Schumm has written a foundational work for anyone who would like to understand the importance of the mother figure in recent Spanish fiction, bringing to light an original perspective on the maternal archetype. ... This is the first book-length work on the subject of motherhood in twenty-first-century Spanish literature, and Schumm analyzes and presents theories of motherhood from diverse sources, such as Greek mythology, twentieth-century American feminist theorists, and international literary critics. ... Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels: Rewriting the Maternal Archetype shows a depth of research and breadth of knowledge as well as an accessible writing style that make it an essential resource for anyone interested in recent Spanish fiction. Teachers and scholars alike will appreciate this work. Schumm's book gives ample cultural, historical, and political background to be useful for a class, and the literary analysis and interconnections shown demonstrate a depth of knowledge helpful to any scholar. * Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures * For . . . Hispanists, Schumm's study is extremely valuable in its focus upon female-authored novels of the early twenty-first century. . . .Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels includes a full and useful bibliography and endnotes. It belongs in the libraries of all who value cogent arguments about writers' efforts to transform and commemorate the figure of the mother through a process that 'focuses on remembering the mother . . . for self-knowledge and individuation, but [based as well in] another objective . . . to create a different world.' * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *

Reseña del editor:

Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth and Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study feature mature protagonists who recall their mothers as a way to define their own identities and to nullify the fictional matricide prevalent in post-war Spanish novels; this twenty-first-century fiction highlights the haunting presence of the mother and begs comparison with myth.

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• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611483581
• ISBN 13: 9781611483581
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236