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Rankin, Tess C., author.

Title Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women's Fiction : Gender and the Scientific Imaginary / Tess C. Rankin.

Publication Info.	Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2024]
	©2024

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (256 p.;).
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Series	Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Series ; Volume 94
	Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 94.
Contents	Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 ¿Qué es la materia? / What's the Matter? Material Rareza and Memorias de Leticia Valle -- 2 (Un)Toward Magnetism: Relational Rareza and Personas en la sala -- 3 Self-Centered Worlds: Perceptual Rareza and Nada -- 4 Difference and Desire after Darwin: Animal Rareza and Perto do coração selvagem -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Note	Description based on print version record.
	Includes index.
Access	Open Access EbpS
Summary	An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scientific understandings and their integration into Hispanic and Lusophone society reshaped the experience of gender. The book analyzes gender as a felt experience and explores how that experience is shaped by popular scientific discourse by examining the "strange" femininity of young protagonists in four novels written by women in Spanish and Portuguese: Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange's Personas en la sala (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet's Nada (Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector's Perto do coração selvagem (Brazil, 1943). It pairs each novel with a broad scientific theme selected from those that captured the contemporary popular imagination to argue that the young female protagonists in these novels all put forth visions of young womanhood as an experience of strangeness. Building on Carmen Martín Gaite's term chicas raras, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world.
Subject	Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Literature and society -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
	Women authors, Spanish -- 20th century.
	Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Brazilian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Gender identity in literature.
	Scientific literature.
	Écrivaines espagnoles -- 20e siècle.
	Roman latino-américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Roman brésilien -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Roman espagnol -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Identité de genre dans la littérature.
	Sciences -- Documentation.
	Littérature latino-américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Littérature et société -- Amérique latine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Indexed Term	gender studies
	science studies
	Carmen Martín Gaite
	Carmen Laforet
	Clarice Lispector
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	1-83764-474-8
ISBN	1837645019 (electronic bk.)
	9781837645015 (electronic bk.)
	1835536409
	9781835536407
Standard No.	AU@ 000075699687
	AU@ 000077275753
	AU@ 000077284394