Antigone's Daughters?: Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing

by Hilary Owen

Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu s, (1923- ), Nat lia Correia (1923-93), H lia Correia (1949 -) and L dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611480027
• ISBN13: 9781611480023
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"