1st Edition

Multiple Modernities Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist

Edited By Michelle Sharp, Anja Louis Copyright 2017
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgos’s multipronge feminist approach. Burgos’s works, especially her essays, are essential feminist reading and complement other European and North American traditions. Gaining familiarity with the breadth and depth of her work serves not only to provide an understanding of Spanish firstwave feminism, but also enriches our appreciation of cultural studies, gender studies, subaltern studies and travel literature. Looking at the entirety of her life and work, and the wide-ranging contributions in this volume, it is evident that Burgos embodied the tensions between tradition and modernity, depicting multiple representations of womanhood. Encouraging women to take ownership of their personal fashion, the design of their homes and the decorum of their families were steps towards recognizing a female population that was cognizant of its own desires.

    Contents





    Editors’ Introduction: Carmen de Burgos revisited





    Carmen de Burgos: A Spanish Feminist – Lost and Found



    Elizabeth Starčević





    The Carmen de Burgos Enigma: Marriage, Separation, and Public Activism



    Maryellen Bieder





    Carmen de Burgos’s Place in a Genealogy of Spanish Feminist Thought



    Roberta Johnson





    Face to Face with Carmen de Burgos: the Influence of Nineteenth-century Writers



    Ana I. Simón Alegre





    Carmen de Burgos and her Virtual Dialogues with Pío Baroja and Miguel de Unamuno



    Thomas Franz



    Of Feminism and Fringe: Carmen de Burgos’s La melena de la discordia



    Kathleen Doyle





    Putting the Brake on Matilde: The Woman Traveller in Carmen de Burgos’s El perseguidor



    Elena Lindholm





    In Search of Feminist Happiness: Burgos’s La entrometida



    Anja Louis





    Homosexual and Virile Women in Ellos y ellas and Quiero vivir mi vida



    Lourdes Estrada-López





    Carmen de Burgos Speaking for Women



    Michael Ugarte





    Bringing the escuela to the despensa: Regenerationist Politics in Burgos’s Cookbooks Rebecca Ingram





    La perfecta casada: Carmen de Burgos’s New Feminine Feminist Perfection



    Michelle M. Sharp



    Biography



    Anja Louis is Associate Professor in Cultural and Intercultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she is a member of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute.



    Michelle M. Sharp is visiting Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN).