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Alcores: revista de historia contemporánea, 2015
Romance Studies, Jan 2, 2023
Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, 2021
Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Dec 14, 2015
ROSEANNA MUELLER: Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholar... more ROSEANNA MUELLER: Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
GRISO (Grupo de Investigación Siglo de Oro Universidad de Navarra) eBooks, 2015
Comunicación y género, Nov 20, 2019
Cinema has emerged as a production site in which representations of sexualities are constructed a... more Cinema has emerged as a production site in which representations of sexualities are constructed and inscribed within the symbolic discourse of power and Cuban film Fresa y chocolate represents an enlightening example. Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío´s goal is to make explicit the social construction of the dominant symbolic order and the problems involved in its deconstructionto show the extent to which sexual politics are deeply rooted in all cultural and social formations throughout history. This study attempts to elucidate the dialectical relationship between the social symbolic order-the norm-and the individual consciousness. The filmmakers strategically construct the relationship and the conflicts and contradictions that arise from it, including criticism of some aspects of the Cuban Revolution, namely, the pathos of queer culture, thus empowering sexual difference as an element of social change.
This article explores how the Cuban-Spanish writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873) succ... more This article explores how the Cuban-Spanish writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873) succeeded throughout her writings and life experiences in proclaiming her status as a pioneering champion of equality on both sides of the Atlantic, creating a transatlantic discourse of empowerment. Her writing, marked by a gendered perspective, led to the recovery of a nineteenth-century feminine national discourse. This study focuses on her controversial and enlightening novel Sab (1841), which is part of an important project that painstakingly creates a place for her at the foreground of the Hispanic world’s nineteenth-century literature and feminist thought. Furthermore, it recovers the revolutionary moment in which Gomez de Avellaneda not only stepped into a globalizing world, but also freed herself through her national world, creating a discourse of freedom and justice.
Romance Studies, 2015
In the Hispanic World the nineteenth century witnessed a significant proliferation of women write... more In the Hispanic World the nineteenth century witnessed a significant proliferation of women writers whose works were not only directed at a feminine audience. 1 These writers began to publish their work in women's and literary journals, these being the only available channels of expression at the time. Among these writers, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda stands out. As a woman writer, she had to face many obstacles when she tried to enter the literary world, then under total male domination, and had to adapt to the accepted cultural norms, expressing her subversive ideas without openly challenging the social conventions of patriarchy. Gómez de Avellaneda, whose birth bicentennial is celebrated in 2014, left Cuba bound for Spain in 1836, when she was twenty-four years old. She soon became not only a leading figure in literary salons, but also an active and prolific writer. She returned to Cuba with Colonel Domingo Verdugo, her second husband, at the end of 1859, receiving an enthusiastic welcome in her native land after twenty-three years' absence. She founded the magazine Álbum Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello (1860) and enjoyed unparalleled prestige as an acclaimed woman writer. Her husband served as Governor in Cuba where he died in 1863. Gómez de Avellaneda subsequently left Cuba; her own death on 1 February 1873 in Madrid went largely unnoticedsurprisingly, in view of her established literary status and reputation in cultural circles. Avellaneda's literary career spanned a period of thirty years, from the appearance of her first novel Sab in 1841 to the publication of her Obras Completas between 1869 and 1871. She was a leading woman intellectual and a prolific writer, publishing numerous collections of poetry, six novels, several plays, a collection of short stories (Leyendas), and two series of journalistic essays on women entitled 'La mujer' and 'Galería de mujeres célebres'. In addition, her literary legacy contains relevant autobiographical materials, which offer a rich source of information about her personal life-a life quite exceptional for a woman of her time-and helped establish her romantic persona.
Romance Quarterly, Jul 1, 1995
... Perhaps the authoress needed conventional male protection from the censure of her culture, es... more ... Perhaps the authoress needed conventional male protection from the censure of her culture, especially after her socially condemned experience with Tassara. ... she wrote a series of articles entitled "La mujer." 20 Through the bib-lical characters, María and Magdalena, we are ...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2017
This study aims to demonstrate the relationship between gender, sex and writing in La nada cotidi... more This study aims to demonstrate the relationship between gender, sex and writing in La nada cotidiana (1995) by the Cuban writer Zoé Valdés (1959-). From exile and marginalization, as a woman and writer, the author resorts to different feminine/feminist strategies to resist any kind of repression. Through the erotic discourse, the writer explores her gender identity and denounces the oppressive system of patriarchy, restoring its authentic identity. In sum, Valdés' writing and her own life experience represent a legacy that promotes change in the situation of women: the strategic discursive awareness of the Cuban feminine voice demonstrates that silence does not exist and that the discourse of the feminine body is a vehicle of freedom.
Iberoamericana Vervuert eBooks, Dec 31, 2007
The films The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) are both directed by Mexican Gui... more The films The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) are both directed by Mexican Guillermo del Toro, and they are considered his Spanish films. Both films are set during the Spanish Civil War, but none of them explicitly deals with this tragic historical episode. However, this tense and oppressive context enables Del Toro to explore a theme of a greater complexity: Monstrosity and its relationship to the cultural notion of gender. Monsters are traditionally the epitome of fear and the protagonists of fantasy genres. This study attempts to demonstrate, within the framework of psychoanalysis, that the Mexican filmmaker resorts to the juxtaposition of real and fantasy worlds in order to establish an eloquent parallelism between the representation of monstrosity and gender. Ultimately, Del Toro's objective is to question and re-evaluate the symbolic and dominant patriarchal structures and its perverse consequences over the individual.
Alcores: revista de historia contemporánea, 2015
Romance Studies, Jan 2, 2023
Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, 2021
Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Dec 14, 2015
ROSEANNA MUELLER: Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholar... more ROSEANNA MUELLER: Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
GRISO (Grupo de Investigación Siglo de Oro Universidad de Navarra) eBooks, 2015
Comunicación y género, Nov 20, 2019
Cinema has emerged as a production site in which representations of sexualities are constructed a... more Cinema has emerged as a production site in which representations of sexualities are constructed and inscribed within the symbolic discourse of power and Cuban film Fresa y chocolate represents an enlightening example. Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío´s goal is to make explicit the social construction of the dominant symbolic order and the problems involved in its deconstructionto show the extent to which sexual politics are deeply rooted in all cultural and social formations throughout history. This study attempts to elucidate the dialectical relationship between the social symbolic order-the norm-and the individual consciousness. The filmmakers strategically construct the relationship and the conflicts and contradictions that arise from it, including criticism of some aspects of the Cuban Revolution, namely, the pathos of queer culture, thus empowering sexual difference as an element of social change.
This article explores how the Cuban-Spanish writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873) succ... more This article explores how the Cuban-Spanish writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873) succeeded throughout her writings and life experiences in proclaiming her status as a pioneering champion of equality on both sides of the Atlantic, creating a transatlantic discourse of empowerment. Her writing, marked by a gendered perspective, led to the recovery of a nineteenth-century feminine national discourse. This study focuses on her controversial and enlightening novel Sab (1841), which is part of an important project that painstakingly creates a place for her at the foreground of the Hispanic world’s nineteenth-century literature and feminist thought. Furthermore, it recovers the revolutionary moment in which Gomez de Avellaneda not only stepped into a globalizing world, but also freed herself through her national world, creating a discourse of freedom and justice.
Romance Studies, 2015
In the Hispanic World the nineteenth century witnessed a significant proliferation of women write... more In the Hispanic World the nineteenth century witnessed a significant proliferation of women writers whose works were not only directed at a feminine audience. 1 These writers began to publish their work in women's and literary journals, these being the only available channels of expression at the time. Among these writers, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda stands out. As a woman writer, she had to face many obstacles when she tried to enter the literary world, then under total male domination, and had to adapt to the accepted cultural norms, expressing her subversive ideas without openly challenging the social conventions of patriarchy. Gómez de Avellaneda, whose birth bicentennial is celebrated in 2014, left Cuba bound for Spain in 1836, when she was twenty-four years old. She soon became not only a leading figure in literary salons, but also an active and prolific writer. She returned to Cuba with Colonel Domingo Verdugo, her second husband, at the end of 1859, receiving an enthusiastic welcome in her native land after twenty-three years' absence. She founded the magazine Álbum Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello (1860) and enjoyed unparalleled prestige as an acclaimed woman writer. Her husband served as Governor in Cuba where he died in 1863. Gómez de Avellaneda subsequently left Cuba; her own death on 1 February 1873 in Madrid went largely unnoticedsurprisingly, in view of her established literary status and reputation in cultural circles. Avellaneda's literary career spanned a period of thirty years, from the appearance of her first novel Sab in 1841 to the publication of her Obras Completas between 1869 and 1871. She was a leading woman intellectual and a prolific writer, publishing numerous collections of poetry, six novels, several plays, a collection of short stories (Leyendas), and two series of journalistic essays on women entitled 'La mujer' and 'Galería de mujeres célebres'. In addition, her literary legacy contains relevant autobiographical materials, which offer a rich source of information about her personal life-a life quite exceptional for a woman of her time-and helped establish her romantic persona.
Romance Quarterly, Jul 1, 1995
... Perhaps the authoress needed conventional male protection from the censure of her culture, es... more ... Perhaps the authoress needed conventional male protection from the censure of her culture, especially after her socially condemned experience with Tassara. ... she wrote a series of articles entitled "La mujer." 20 Through the bib-lical characters, María and Magdalena, we are ...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2017
This study aims to demonstrate the relationship between gender, sex and writing in La nada cotidi... more This study aims to demonstrate the relationship between gender, sex and writing in La nada cotidiana (1995) by the Cuban writer Zoé Valdés (1959-). From exile and marginalization, as a woman and writer, the author resorts to different feminine/feminist strategies to resist any kind of repression. Through the erotic discourse, the writer explores her gender identity and denounces the oppressive system of patriarchy, restoring its authentic identity. In sum, Valdés' writing and her own life experience represent a legacy that promotes change in the situation of women: the strategic discursive awareness of the Cuban feminine voice demonstrates that silence does not exist and that the discourse of the feminine body is a vehicle of freedom.
Iberoamericana Vervuert eBooks, Dec 31, 2007
The films The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) are both directed by Mexican Gui... more The films The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) are both directed by Mexican Guillermo del Toro, and they are considered his Spanish films. Both films are set during the Spanish Civil War, but none of them explicitly deals with this tragic historical episode. However, this tense and oppressive context enables Del Toro to explore a theme of a greater complexity: Monstrosity and its relationship to the cultural notion of gender. Monsters are traditionally the epitome of fear and the protagonists of fantasy genres. This study attempts to demonstrate, within the framework of psychoanalysis, that the Mexican filmmaker resorts to the juxtaposition of real and fantasy worlds in order to establish an eloquent parallelism between the representation of monstrosity and gender. Ultimately, Del Toro's objective is to question and re-evaluate the symbolic and dominant patriarchal structures and its perverse consequences over the individual.