Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction
The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scien...
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2023
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| author | Rankin, Tess C. |
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| description | The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scientific understandings and their integration into Hispanic and Lusophone society reshaped the experience of gender. The book analyzes gender as a felt experience and explores how that experience is shaped by popular scientific discourse by examining the “strange” femininity of young protagonists in four novels written by women in Spanish and Portuguese: Rosa Chacel’s Memorias de Leticia Valle (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange’s Personas en la sala (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet’s Nada (Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector’s Perto do coração selvagem (Brazil, 1943). It pairs each novel with a broad scientific theme selected from those that captured the contemporary popular imagination to argue that the young female protagonists in these novels all put forth visions of young womanhood as an experience of strangeness. Building on Carmen Martín Gaite’s term chicas raras, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1313912025-03-20T20:40:14Z Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction Rankin, Tess C. gender studies; science studies; Carmen Martín Gaite; Carmen Laforet; Clarice Lispector The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scientific understandings and their integration into Hispanic and Lusophone society reshaped the experience of gender. The book analyzes gender as a felt experience and explores how that experience is shaped by popular scientific discourse by examining the “strange” femininity of young protagonists in four novels written by women in Spanish and Portuguese: Rosa Chacel’s Memorias de Leticia Valle (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange’s Personas en la sala (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet’s Nada (Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector’s Perto do coração selvagem (Brazil, 1943). It pairs each novel with a broad scientific theme selected from those that captured the contemporary popular imagination to argue that the young female protagonists in these novels all put forth visions of young womanhood as an experience of strangeness. Building on Carmen Martín Gaite’s term chicas raras, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world. 2023-12-06T04:27:45Z 2023-12-06T04:27:45Z 2023-12-05T08:31:46Z 2024 book OCN: 1412388467 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85775 9781837644742 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131391 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85775/1/Rankin_9781837645015_web.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85775/1/Rankin_9781837645015_web.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85775/1/Rankin_9781837645015_web.pdf Liverpool University Press aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef 9781837644742 208 Liverpool open access |
| spellingShingle | gender studies; science studies; Carmen Martín Gaite; Carmen Laforet; Clarice Lispector Rankin, Tess C. Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction |
| title | Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction |
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| title_short | Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction |
| title_sort | feeling strangely in mid century spanish and latin american women s fiction |
| topic | gender studies; science studies; Carmen Martín Gaite; Carmen Laforet; Clarice Lispector |
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