Gender, language and nation: female and androgynous selves in Montserrat Roig's last novels
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Title: | Gender, language and nation: female and androgynous selves in Montserrat Roig's last novels |
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Authors: | Francés-Díez, Àngels |
Research Group/s: | Estudis Transversals: Literatura i Altres Arts en les Cultures Mediterrànies | Grup de Recerca de Literatura Contemporània |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Catalana |
Keywords: | Gender | Language | Nation | Roig, Montserrat |
Knowledge Area: | Literatura Catalana |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Rodopi |
Citation: | FRANCÉS DÍEZ, M. Àngels. “Gender, language and nation: female and androgynous selves in Montserrat Roig's last novels”. En: Visions and revisions : women's narrative in twentieth-century Spain / edited by Kathleen M. Glenn and Kathleen McNerney. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008. (Foro hispánico; 31). ISBN 978-90-420-2411-3, pp. 55-73 |
Abstract: | This paper focuses on the narrative fiction of Montserrat Roig, one of the most popular contemporary Catalan writers. It looks at the importance of gender, nation and language in the construction of her female characters’ selves, according to Kristeva’s concept of subject in progress. In their quest for self-acceptance and fulfilment, the women of her novels often look back to origins and the maternal legacy as a source for self-creation and identification. In this context, Roig’s conscious choice of Catalan as a literary language configures it as a strong pillar for her characters’ identities: Catalan is not only her mother tongue but a nationality, and it also represents her city, Barcelona. Catalan language and literature, located in this precise geographical place, create the symbolic sphere where her characters try to root themselves. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/20032 |
ISBN: | 978-90-420-2411-3 |
ISSN: | 0925-8620 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart |
Rights: | Es poden citar fragments de l'obre sempre que se'n consigne l'origen (cita bibliogràfica) |
Peer Review: | si |
Appears in Collections: | INV - ET - Capítols de Llibres INV - GRLC - Treballs sobre Literatura del Jo |
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