Gender, Class, and Nation: Merce Rodoreda and the Subjects of Modernism

Arkinstall, Christine R.

ISBN 10: 0838755623 / ISBN 13: 9780838755624

Published by UNKNO, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender, Class, and Nation: Merce Rodoreda and the Subjects of Modernism
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838755623
• ISBN 13: 9780838755624
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Little attention has been paid to Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983) as a modernist writer. This study addresses the relationship of her production with Catalan, Spanish, and European modernism. Foregrounded is Rodoreda's negotiation of the overlapping subjects of gender, class, modes of representation, and national identities. In the first three chapters her pre-Civil War novels Soc una dona honrada?, Un dia de la vida d'un home, and Del que hom no pot fugir are read against key Catalan texts, particularly Eugeni d'Ors', to emphasize debates surrounding modernist aesthetics and models of Catalan national identity. The modernist preoccupation with high versus low literature is developed in Aloma, while El carrer de les Camelies reconfigures the flaneur vis-a-vis the female writer's positioning in the modernist enterprise. The modernist debt to realism and the revindication of early Catalan modernism in the 1970s are examined in Mirall trencat. Christine Arkinstall is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The University of Auckland.

About the Author

Christine Arkinstall is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The University of Auckland.