Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.
| ISBN: | 9789027217509 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1990 |
| Author: | Lou CharnonDeutsch |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 226 pages |
| Series: | Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general |