LEADER 04870nam 2200721 a 450 001 9911008479903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-98836-0 010 $a9786612988363 010 $a1-84615-757-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781846157578 035 $a(CKB)2670000000065998 035 $a(EBL)661923 035 $a(OCoLC)701057234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12157762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10435864 035 $a(PQKB)10968506 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC661923 035 $a(DE-B1597)676819 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781846157578 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846157578 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000065998 100 $a20091204d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRomance and exemplarity in post-war Spanish women's narratives /$fNino Kebadze 210 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ;$aRochester, N.Y. $cTamesis$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aColeccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ;$v279 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023). 311 $a1-85566-192-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index. 327 $aFRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I Towards Female Exemplarity: Setting the Norm; 1 From Nationalist Victory to New Signifying Practices; 2 Engendering Exemplary Women; 3 La perfecta casada: The Catholic Model of an Ideal Wife; 4 El a?ngel del hogar and the Bourgeois Ideal of Domesticity; 5 Female Formation and La nueva mujer of the Falange; PART II Reading Romance: Questioning the Norm; 6 Post-War Conventions of Representing Women: Gender and Genre Constraints; 7 "La imperfecta casada" or the Making of an Ideal Wife in Luisa-Mari?a Linares' Un marido a precio fijo 327 $a8 Interpreting 'Surrender' in Concha Linares-Becerra's Como los hombres nos quieren9 Carmen de Icaza's Son?ar la vida or the Imperative to Dream; 10 Taking Matters into Your Own Hands in Mari?a Mercedes Ortoll's En pos de la ilusio?n; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; BACKCOVER 330 $aA reading of women's post-war literary representations in terms of exemplarity. The effects of General Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule (1939-1975) on the production and reception of cultural texts can be gauged by the silence that now surrounds them. This is especially true of works which enjoyed considerable popularity when first published. Most of the novels in question belong to the sentimental genre known as novela rosa, whose authors-mostly women-and heroines Academe has consistently treated as literary pariahs. This volume represents the first serious effort to question the categories used to assess the value and meaning of texts previously presumed to be devoid of both. It does so by bringing to the fore the operative premise of Francoist cultural politics, wherein fictional works have the power to mould individual character and conduct. Narratives by Luisa-Mari?a Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and Mari?a Mercedes Ortoll are thus examined in terms of the effects that they were expected to have on their readers, and the constraints that such expectations placed on the works' production and reception. The result is a paradox: while the study of women's bestselling novels is by definition a study of the constraints that shape them, careful reading reveals the limitations of those selfsame constraints. NINO KEBADZE is an Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston. 410 0$aColeccion Tamesis.$nSerie A,$pMonografias ;$v279. 606 $aSpanish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpanish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zSpain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zSpain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zSpain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen in literature 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y1939-1975 615 0$aSpanish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpanish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a863.64099287 700 $aKebadze$b Nino$f1975-$01825916 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008479903321 996 $aRomance and exemplarity in post-war Spanish women's narratives$94393845 997 $aUNINA