Unamuno: Aunt Tula: La Tía Tula: A Novel (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908343222 ISBN 13: 9781908343222

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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About the Author

JULIA BIGGANE is senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is a general editor of the Bulletin of Spanish
Studies, and director of the Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History at the University of Aberdeen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908343222
• ISBN 13: 9781908343222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200