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- Title: Through the "I" of the Other: Cross-Gender Narration in Rodoreda's Quanta, Quanta Guerra ...
- Author : Michigan Academician
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 365 KB
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Merce Rodoreda published prolifically throughout her lifetime and is probably one of the best-known authors in the Catalan language. She won the prestigious Premi d'honor de les Lletres Catalanes (she is the first woman to have done so), and her novel La placa del Diamant has been translated into twenty languages. Nonetheless, Rodoreda remains a relatively unknown and under-appreciated author outside Catalonia. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing interest in and examination of her work both in Spain and in the United States. While in the period 1963-1980 the Modern Language Association bibliography records only three references to Rodoreda and an additional two references to La placa del Diamant, since 1980 there have been more than seventy articles and books published on her short stories and novels, including ten dissertations. (1) Some of Rodoreda's new popularity is due to the increasing interest of American feminist literary critics in her work. Many of these critics have been intrigued by the role of the garden and of flowers in Rodoreda's fiction, relating them to the biblical Garden of Eden or to a time of childhood innocence and happiness. (2) Others have addressed her exploration of the complex problems of identity or her investigations into the issues of gender and sexuality. (3) Rodoreda has become equated with themes of isolation, exile, and otherness as well as a persistent examination of the place (or lack of it) of women in patriarchy. (4) Her protagonists frequently contend with an inability to express their thoughts and emotions and with a feeling of enclosure or entrapment.
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