Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women Contributor(s): Howe, Elizabeth Teresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138379999 ISBN-13: 9781138379992 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: 868.309 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Women's life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Do a Leonor L 3pez de Cord 3ba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a 'life' and telling a 'lie'. |