Women, Revolution, and Autobiographical Writing in the Twentieth Century: Writing History, Writing the Self

publication date: 30/06/2007
ISBN13: 9780773453678
Format: Hardback
Number Of Pages: 312
ID: 9780773453678
ISBN10: 0773453679

By: Kristine A. Byron (author), Professor Margaret R. Higonnet (preface_author)Hardback

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Description

This book considers issues of gender and representation through an analysis of twentieth-century female revolutionary figures from Ireland, Spain, Cuba, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Since revolutions (and their siblings - civil wars) occasion social transformation under often chaotic conditions, they open up space for the potential transformation of gender relations. These women's life writings illustrate gender relations in flux, expose the political symbolism of the strong woman at moments of nation formation and transformation, and display the multiple ways that gender enters into literary, historical, and visual narratives.