Character and Gender in Contemporary Catalan Literature

The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today. The very limited number of female authors in earlier times – whose numbers are increasing as more and more names of female writers consigned to oblivion by the historical canon are being unearthed – provided the justification for their discrimination. This volume contributes to the analysis of those past views on gender (all gender perspectives) as they appear through the lense of contemporary Catalan literature. In the social roles they adopt, female characters act, express, and assert themselves in the language they use and are based on the society of which they form part.

Adolf Piquer Catalan at the University of Salamanca (Spain) from 1993 to 2009, and is currently the chairperson of the Department of Philology and European Cultures at Jaume I University (Castelló, Spain), where he is a professor of Catalan studies and conducts research on narrative analysis – novels and stories specially – and comparative literature.

Adéla Koťátková is a linguist at Jaume I University and the University of Valencia, Spain. She does interdisciplinary research between humanities (linguistics and literature) and the health sciences. Her areas of interest are Catalan Studies, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis in Healthcare Communication, Corpus Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics.