This book explores the different treatment of writing by women andwriting by men in twenty-first-century Spain. Focusing on contemporarySpanish authors Ana María Matute (1926–2014), Rosa Montero (1952–),and Lucía Etxebarria (1966–), the author examines how Spanish womenwriters are marketed in Spain and, in particular, how current marketingstrategies reinforce traditional structures of femininity.
Through an analysis of their work and lives in the context of the FrancoRegime, the Transition to democracy and contemporary Spain, this bookprovides an innovative study of the construction of the public personaeof these key female writers. As social media and the internet transformauthors’ relationship with their readers, the rapidly shifting publishingindustry offers an important context for the difficult balance betweenhigh levels of reception and visibility and the persistence of traditionalgender stereotypes.
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Focusing on authors Ana María Matute, Rosa Montero, and Lucía Etxebarria, this book examines how women writers are marketed in Spain and, in particular, how current marketing strategies reinforce traditional structures of femininity. The analysis explores the rapidly shifting publishing industry and the use of social media in gender stereotyping.
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CONTENTS: Gender, Memory, Culture, and History in the Spanish Literary Market – The Question of «Women’s Writing»: A «Double-Edged» Double Bind? – The Reception and Marketing of Women Writers in Spain – The Literary Market and the Construction of the Public Personae of Women Writers – Matute, Montero, and Etxebarria on Women’s Writing – Persistent Stereotypes
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783034318655
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Vekt
325 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Series edited by
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Biographical note
Mazal Oaknín completed her MA and PhD in Hispanic Studies atUniversity College London, where she has been teaching Hispanic
language and literature since 2009. She previously taught Spanish in
Malaga, New York, Paris and Birmingham. She co-edited the volume
Literatura política y política literaria en España: Del Desastre del 98 a Felipe
VI with Guillermo Laín Corona (Peter Lang, 2015) and her work has
appeared in journals such as Espéculo, Fahrenheit 452, Alba Magazine and
Argus. Her research focuses on four main areas: contemporary Spanish
literature, gender and identity, fiction in the digital age and representations
of minorities.