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In Her Words
Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
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2011
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During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her Words speaks to the inherent complexity of Gloria Fuertes's poetry, as manifested in its ultimate indeterminacy and undecidability, yet attests to this poet's abiding value as the voice of the marginalized-women, the poor, children, all the invisible members of society-who were silenced during the years of Spanish dictatorship under Franco. This book manifests the prescience of Fuertes's stands on a variety of social and cultural issues, from women's changing roles in society, gender and sexuality, identity within a society held captive by a dictatorial regime, to more universal themes such as love, justice, ethics, nature, and obsolete societal norms. In Her Words decisively addresses and ultimately rejects the Spanish cultural elite's inclination to disavow Fuertes's influence and reveals how her voice has shaped succeeding generations of Spanish poets and underscored the ubiquity of her verse in contemporary Spanish literature and culture. The subtlety and diversity of the essays included in this volume attest to the power of Gloria Fuertes's poetic creativity, her ability to appeal to a wide audience both in Spain and abroad, and her place in the contemporary Spanish poetic canon.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-014-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-015-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
324
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Acknowledgments No access
Prologue No access
Portraits of the Poet in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes No access
Gloria et al. No access
Gloria Fuertes: Self-Portraits of a Fertile Spinster No access
Lesbian Identity: (Dis)appearing Act in Gloria Fuertes’s Poetry No access
Gerontological Poetics in Gloria Fuertes’s Posthumous Es dificil ser feliz una tarde No access
Hearing Voices: Transtextuality and Heteroglossia in Gloria Fuertes’s Mujer de verso en pecho No access
Community and the Privileging of Sound in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes No access
Poetic Forms and Ideology in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes No access
Gloria Fuertes’s Counterhegemonic Dialogism: A Response to El Nacionalcatolicismo No access
Gloria Fuertes’s Vietnam War Poems: Revising the Elegiac Tradition No access
Transcending Boundaries: Gloria Fuertes’s Poetry for Children and/or Adults No access
Toward an Ecofeminist Dialogics in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes No access
Reflections on Gloria Fuertes: Ethics and Community No access
Gloria Fuertes: Select Bibliography No access Pages 290 - 298
