Antigone's Daughters? - Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing

I>Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu s, (1923- ), Nat lia Correia (1923-93), H lia Correia (1949 -) and L dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving institutional acceptance and validation in the Portuguese national canon at different points in the 20th century.

List of contents

1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3 1. Florbela Espanca and Female Genius: Alone of All Her Sex? 4 2. Irene Lisboa: Minding the Gender Gap 5 3. The Case of the Missing Body: Allegories of Authorship in Agustina Bessa Luis 6 4. Matriarchal Precedents: Thus Spoke Natalia Correia 7 5. Giving Up Whose Ghost in the Works of Helia Correia 8 6. Sexual/Textual Re-Visions in Lidia Jorge 9 Conclusion

About the author

By Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos Alonso

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Pazos Alonso, Hilary Owen, Hilary Owens, CL Pazos Alonso, Claudia Pazos Alonso, Cláudia Pazos Alonso
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611480023
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-002-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies