Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 585 g
Women in Spanish realist fiction
Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 585 g
Reihe: Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages
ISBN: 978-90-272-1749-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.
