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- Title
Spanish and Latin American Women Writers in the Literary Canon: A Paratextual Study of Anthologies of Fantastic Literature (1946–2016)*.
- Authors
garcía, patricia
- Abstract
While it is evident that there have been outstanding women authors of the fantastic in Spain and Latin America since the nineteenth century, it is not as clear whether these writers are fairly represented in the corpus available to readers. To what extent are women authors part of the fantastic canon? Are there female reference points for new generations of women writers? To explore processes of canon formation in the literature of the fantastic from a feminist perspective, this article gathers paratexts from 110 anthologies. Employing a quantitative approach with regard to indexed authors, the first section addresses specific questions related to gender and the fantastic in the Hispanic context by analysing statistical data. The empirical study is complemented by an analysis of how the female author is presented and constructed through the discourse in introductions, forewords and other paratextual materials of these anthologies.
- Subjects
WOMEN authors; LATIN American authors; SPANISH authors; SPANISH literature; LATIN American literature; FANTASY literature; ANTHOLOGIES
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2019, Vol 96, Issue 6, p575
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2019.34