Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

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Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times review of a 1958 English edition of this novel, de Céspedes was called “one of the few distinguished women writers since Colette to grapple effectively with what it is to be a woman.”
Discussed in this episode:
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (astrapublishinghouse.com/product/forbidden-not…)
Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes (astrapublishinghouse.com/product/her-side-of-t…)
Muriel Rukeyser poem “Kathë Kollwitz” (poetryfoundation.org/poems/90874/kathe-kollwitz)
Hell or High Water by Joy Castro (joycastro.com/books/hell-or-high-water)
Flight Risk by Joy Castro (amazon.com/Flight-Risk-Novel-Joy-Castro/dp/154…)
Island of Bones by Joy Castro (joycastro.com/books/island-of-bones)
One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro (amazon.com/One-Brilliant-Flame-Joy-Castro/dp/1…)
The Truth Book by Joy Castro (amazon.com/Truth-Book-Memoir-Joy-Castro/dp/080…)
“Burning It Down” by Joy Castro (oldster.substack.com/p/burning-it-down)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margery Latimer (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/69-margery-latimer…)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/3-em-delafield-emd…)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Miriam Karpilove (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/142-miriam-karpilo…)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Lorraine Hansberry (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/43-lorraine-hansbe…)
Literary scholar Merve Emre (merveemre.com/about)
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_de_C%C3%A9…)
Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (amazon.com/So-Long-Letter-Mariama-Ba/dp/157766…)
Mercé Rodoreda (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merc%C3%A8_Rodoreda)
Elena Ferrante (elenaferrante.com)
Katherine Mansfield (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield)
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awakening_(Chopin_no…))
Natalia Ginsburg’s essay “On Women” in Mercurio and a response by Alba de Céspedes (nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/on-women-an-ex…)
America Ferrera speech in Barbie movie (today.com/popculture/movies/america-ferrara-ba…)
Real Women Have Curves (imdb.com/title/tt0296166)
Rhi Johnson (spanport.indiana.edu/about/faculty/johnson-rhi…)
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