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| Genre/Form: | Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Byron, Kristine A. Women, revolution, and autobiographical writing in the twentieth century. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007 (OCoLC)654490950 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristine A Byron |
| ISBN: | 9780773453678 0773453679 |
| OCLC Number: | 144767585 |
| Description: | viii, 297 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword: Revolutionary women, political actors / by Margaret R. Higonnet -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women, revolution, and representation -- The politics of performance : Irish revolutionaries Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, and Kathleen Clarke -- Dolores Ibárruri and the Spanish Civil War -- ¿La historia me absorberá? : Haydée Santamaría and the Cuban revolution -- Doris Tijerino : revolution, writing, and resistance in Nicaragua -- Women's prison memoirs of El Salvador's civil war : Ana Guadalupe Martínez and Nidia Diaz -- Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | Kristine A. Byron ; with a foreword by Margaret R. Higonnet. |
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"As their autobiographical writings testify, revolutionary women have been conscious that they emerge into public space at critical moments in history that redefine not only social relations and political institutions but gender definitions as well. Exceptional and yet highly symbolic figures, these women attract questions about self-representation as political representation... The time has therefore come for close analysis of these texts and a reassessment of the women who authored them." - Dr. Margaret R. Higonnet Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of Connecticut "In this original, inventive, and quite ingenious study of the writings of revolutionary women from Ireland, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Spain, Professor Byron succeeds impressively in enlarging our knowledge of the roles played by literary women in some of the best-known, though often imperfectly documented, military and political struggles that took place in the twentieth century." - Dr. Eamonn Wall Professor of English University of Missouri - St. Louis. "This book will be of value to scholars interested in Ireland, Spain, and Latin America, as well as Women's studies..." - Dr. Daniel J. Anderson Associate Dean and Professor of Spanish College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Kansas" Read more...
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- Women revolutionaries -- History -- 20th century.
- Women revolutionaries -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Autobiography -- Women authors.
- Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
- Femmes révolutionnaires -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Femmes révolutionnaires -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
- Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
- Études sur les femmes -- Histoires de vie.
