Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite

Informationen zum Autor Joan L. Brown is Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Secrets from the Back Room: The Fiction of Carmen Martín Gaite (1987) and Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2010). She is the editor of Women Writers of Contemporary Spain: Exiles in the Homeland (1991). With Carmen Martín Gaite, she wrote the textbook Conversaciones creadoras: Mastering Spanish Conversation (1994). Klappentext The career of Spain’s celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s dictatorship, and the nation’s transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. The only person to win Spain’s National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de las Letras) twice, Martín Gaite explored and blended a range of genres, from social realism to the fantastic, as she took up issues of gender, class, economics, and aesthetics in a time of political upheaval. Part 1 (“Materials”) of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 (“Approaches”) consider Martín Gaite’s bestknown novel, The Back Room (El cuarto de atrás), and other works from various perspectives: narratological, feminist, sociocultural, stylistic. In an appendix, the volume editor, who was a friend of the author, provides a new translation of Martín Gaite’s only autobiographical sketch, alongside the original Spanish.

Product details

• Authors: Joan L. (EDT) Brown
• Assisted by: Joan L Brown (Editor), Joan L. Brown (Editor), James Ray Green (Translation), Beatriz Llenín Figueroa (Translation)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781603291316
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-131-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories