Resumen de Character and Gender in Contemporary Catalan Literature

Adolf Piquer Vidal (coord.), Adéla Kotatkova (coord.)

• The question of gender has sometimes been ignored or mystified in literary historicist contributions. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature from a gender perspective that would be difficult to overlook today. The very limited number of female authors in earlier times – who are becoming less scarce today as the names are unearthed of women writers consigned to oblivion by the historical canons – provided the justification for discrimination of female writers.

  This volume contributes to these contemporary views of gender (all gender perspectives) that Catalan literature has given us. In the social roles that they adopt, the characters act, express themselves and assert themselves in the language in which they have been written, and based on the society of which they are a part.