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2002

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Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño Jun 2002

Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This paper analyzes the influence of postmodernism in Paloma Díaz-Mas's feminist approach through two short stories, "The World According to Valdés," and "In Search of a Portrait." The political situation after Franco's death embraced democracy which allowed writers to pay more attention to intellectual concerns. Women writers steered the radical positions of the 1970s toward a more philosophical and intellectual analysis of reality and artistic expression during the eighties. In these two short stories, Díaz-Mas addresses women's issues by questioning the scope of modernist and humanist views. She criticizes the modernist concept of unity (text/identity) pointing out the discrimination that …


Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher Jan 2002

Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This volume was compiled following the 16th International colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies that Martine Antle and I organized at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999…