Transcultural encounters amongst women : redrawing boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone art, literature and film / edited by Patricia O'Byrne, Gabrielle Carty and Niamh Thornton.
The legacy of Mexico 1968 on film in "¿Y si platicamos de agosto?" (1981) directed by Mayrse Sistach and Francisca, "¿De qué lado estás?" (2002) directed by Eva López Sánchez / Niamh Thornton. Regina Célia Pinto's Museum of the Essential and Beyond That / Margaret Anne Clarke -- Consciousness-raising for the twenty-first century: feminist websites and postfeminism online / Carlota Larrea -- The dressing of Brazilian blended cultures / Sheila Gies and Tracy Cassidy -- Transcultural conflicts in Mexico City: comic and contradictory representations of female identity in Gustavo Sainz's "La Princesa del Palacio de Hierro" / Paul McAleer -- The inverted room / Ana García Bergua -- Exile and the mother-daughter relationship in Josefina Aldecoa's "Mujeres de negro" and "La fuerza del destino" / Nuala Kenny -- Telling their "war story": a comparative analysis of the perception of British and Spanish women activists of their experiences of the Spanish Civil War / Deirdre Finnerty -- Voice from the sidelines: the Crônicas of Inês Pedrosa and Maria Judite de Carvalho at the intersection of literary canon and journalism / Suzan Williams -- The Spanish woman, her "other" and the censors: transcultural encounters in the post-Civil War novel / Jacqueline P. Mulhall -- Women writers and their animals: Virginia Woolf's "Flush" and Maria Gabriela Llansol's "Jade", two dogs with a voice of their own / Raquel Ribeiro -- Transcultural encounters in Icíar Bollaín's "Flores de otro mundo (1999)": from racism towards acceptance of the "female other" / Patricia O'Byrne -- Perspective and focalisation in the representation of the transcultural encounter in "Princesas" (2005) / Gabrielle Carty -- The legacy of Mexico 1968 on film in "¿Y si platicamos de agosto?" (1981) directed by Mayrse Sistach and Francisca, "¿De qué lado estás?" (2002) directed by Eva López Sánchez / Niamh Thornton.
Summary:
Traditionally, women have found recourse in artistic means to interrogate change and upheaval. This volume explores women from Spain, Portugal and Latin America who have described this experience in their literature and films.
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