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Bilingual Legacies

Aguilar, Anna Casas

2022

Overview

Bilingual Legacies examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Drawing on the autobiographical texts of Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, Terenci Moix, and Clara Janes, the book explores how these authors understood gender roles and paternal figures as well as how they positioned themselves in relation to Spanish and Catalan literary traditions.Anna Casas Aguilar contends that through their presentation of father figures, these authors subvert static ideas surrounding fatherhood. She argues that this diversity was crucial in opening the door to revised gender models in Spain during the democratic period. Moving beyond the shadow of the dictator, Casas Aguilar shows how these writers distinguished between the patriarchal \"father of the nation\" and their own paternal figures. In doing so, Bilingual Legacies sheds light on the complexity of Spanish conceptions of gender, language, and family and illustrates how notions of masculinity, authorship, and canon are interrelated.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: 20th century / Autobiographical fiction / Autobiographical fiction, Spanish / autobiography / Barcelona / bilingualism / Biography as a literary form / Carlos Barral / Catalan literature / Catalan literature-20th century-History and criticism / Catalan writers / Clara Janés / European Studies / Families in literature / father figures / Fatherhood in literature / Fathers in literature / gender / History / HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal / History and criticism / Juan Goytisolo / Language & Literature / Latin American Studies / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese / LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century / self-writing / Sex role in literature / Spain / Spanish literature / Spanish literature-20th century-History and criticism / Spanish Transition / Terenci Moix
• ISBN: 9781487545000, 1487545002