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"Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman--and her counterpart, the feminized man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain. Focusing on works by major realist authors such as Benito Perez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarín), as well as popular novelists like Eduardo López Bago, Marginal Subjects argues that these archetypes were used to channel collective anxieties about sexuality, class, race, and nation. Tsuchiya also draws on medical and anthropological texts and illustrated periodicals to locate literary works within larger cultural debates. Marginal Subjects is a riveting exploration of why realist and naturalist narratives were so invested in representing gender deviance in fin-de-siecle Spain."--Pub. desc.

Spanish fiction --- Women in literature. --- Gay men in literature. --- Deviant behavior in literature. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Outsiders in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism.

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"Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, including literary fictions, travel narratives, political treatises, medical discourse, and the visual arts, across the global Hispanic world. By focusing on texts by and about women and foregrounding Spain's pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this volume breaks new ground in Iberian literary and cultural studies while also significantly broadening the scope of recent debates in postcolonial feminist theory to account for the Spanish empire and its (former) colonies. Bringing together the work of nine scholars, Unsettling Colonialism is organized into three sections: colonialism and women's migrations; race, performance, and colonial ideologies; and gender and colonialism in literary and political debates. Given its interdisciplinary approach and accessible style, the book will appeal not only to specialists in nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin-American studies but also to a broader audience of scholars in gender, cultural, transatlantic, transpacific, postcolonial, and empire studies"--

Spanish literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism.