Feminine Singular: Women Growing Up through Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World (Paperback)

CONTENTS: Maria-Jose Blanco/Claire Williams: Introduction: Singular Feminine Voices and Histories ? Part I: Cloistered Lives ? Anna Caballe Masforroll: Captive Writing: Intimacy, Eroticism and Repression in Women’s Literature, or Landscapes with Secrets ? Clara Crabbe Rocha: Two Aristocrats in the Convent: The Autobiographies of Antonia Margarida de Castelo Branco and the Marchioness of Alorna ? Part II: Diary Writing ? Laura Freixas ? Publicity and Secrets: Publishing a Private Diary ? Maria-Jose Blanco: Notebooks and Collages: Carmen Martin Gaite’s Visions of America ? Sofia Maniscalco Mason: Adolescence, Trauma and Catharsis in Olga Alonso’s Testimonios: Women’s Life-Writing from Revolutionary Cuba ? Part III: Memoir and Confessions ? Paula Morao: Fernanda de Castro, Ao fim da memoria: Memoirs of a Portuguese Century ? Carina Infante do Carmo: Shadow Talk: Constructing Female Memory of Resistance to Salazar’s Dictatorship ? Raquel Rivas Rojas: Promises of Happiness and Unhappy Effects in Abecedario del estio by Liliana Lara ? Part IV: Poetry ? Rosa Maria Martelo: Childhood Memories in the Poetry of Adilia Lopes ? Susan Bozkurt: Ana Luisa Amaral’s Carta a minha filha: A Mother/Daughter Relationship in Verse ? Part V: Fictional Auto/biography ? Maite Usoz de la Fuente: Gendered Genres: Autobiographical versus Autofictional Readings of Elvira Lindo’s Lo que me queda por vivir ? Silvia Roca-Martinez: The Politics of Self-Presentation and Representation in Isabel Allende’s Mi pais inventado: Un paseo nostalgico por Chile ? Part VI: Visual Biographies ? Claire Williams: Capturing the Likeness: The Encounter between Writer (Agustina Bessa-Luis) and Painter (Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) in Longos Dias Tem Cem Anos ? Pepa Anastasio: Julia Fons’ Scrapbooks of a Chorus Girl: Life-Writing and Popular Musical Practices ? Maria Luisa Coelho: The Eccentric Self-Portraits of Helena Almeida ? Helia Correia: Epilogue: Anything But a Biography