Article: Estrategias tematicas y narrativas en la novela feminizada en Maria de Zayas.(Book review)

Estrategias tematicas y narrativas en la novela feminizada en Maria de Zayas. By Pilar Alcalde. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta. 2005. 141 pp. $18.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-071-0.

Pilar Alcalde's objective is to define the prose works of Maria de Zayas as 'feminine', presumably in contradistinction to the masculinist tradition. She takes on both the Novelas amorosas (1637) and the Desenganos amorosos (1647), a formidable task in 141 pages, and is thus highly selective in the textual evidence she cites. Finding that Zayas is writing for a female public, she considers the author's claim to truth-telling as the basis of her feminized discourse.

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