{"product_id":"feeling-strangely-in-mid-century-spanish-and-latin-american-womens-fiction-gender-and-the-scientific-imaginary-hardcover","title":"Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women's Fiction: Gender and the Scientific Imaginary - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTess C. Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eFeeling Strangely\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eMemorias de Leticia Valle\u003c\/em\u003e (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange's \u003cem\u003ePersonas en la sala\u003c\/em\u003e (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet's \u003ci\u003eNada \u003c\/i\u003e(Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector's \u003cem\u003ePerto do cora??o selvagem\u003c\/em\u003e (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 Mart?n Gaite's term \u003cem\u003echicas raras\u003c\/em\u003e, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTess C. Rankin is a Spanish-English translator and editor with wide-ranging experience with scholarly and art texts. She works with publishers, cultural institutions, and individuals across numerous disciplines in the humanities, particularly in the areas of Iberian and Latin American literary studies, cultural studies, criticism, and theory, and she has published translations of poetry, creative nonfiction, and academic works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701041500256,"sku":"9781837644742","price":98.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/feeling-strangely-in-mid-century-spanish-and-latin-american-womens-fiction-gender-and-the-scientific-imaginary-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}