UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
The Role of Women in Spanish Literature
OUTLINE:
1. The presentation of the course. OBJECTIVES: The study of Spanish literature from its “radical historicity,” through the images of women that texts produce, as much from the male authors as from female authors. The differentiation of the distinct configurations of femininity due to the consolidation of the patriarchal bourgeois society in Spain, and of the possible influence of the gender of the author in the construction of feminine imagery. METHOD: Analysis of selected, fragmented, or complete texts, depending on its length. EVALUATION: Class participation. Individual work on one of the authors studied.
2. Introduction. Literary texts and the images of women. Some basic considerations: Sex/Gender, Subject/Object, Importance of gender in the configuration of feminine imagery.
3. Illustration: Toward the elaboration of a model of the angelic woman: * From Rousseau to Mary Wollstonecraft. (Diderot, Mme Lambert, Mme d’Epinay, Condorcet, Olimpe de Gouges).* De Benito Jerónimo Feijoo to Mª Rosa Gálvez.
4. The triumph of “angel of the home” in the poetry and prose of romantic fiction found in the press that time. Selection of literary magazines and more significant magazines, directed by men and/or women: EL ARTISTA, NO ME OLVIDES, EL ALBA, EL REFLEJO, SEMANARIO PINTORESCO ESPA"OL, EL DEFENSOR DEL BELLO SEXO, LA MUJER, EL ÁNGEL DEL HOGAR, LA GUIRNALDA, LA VIOLETA…
5. The great Realist authors. The convention of the woman-subject: Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”, Juan Valera, Armando Palacio Valdés, José Mª de Pereda, Emilia Pardo Bazán.
6. From ‘98 (Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja) to ’27 (José Díez Fernández, Mª Teresa León): A new concept of femininity? Women narrated by writers at the beginning of the 20th century.
7. Images of women in the Spanish post-war era. Angels versus demons or the problematicization of stereotypes. Between NADA (Carmen Laforet, 1944) and CINCO HORAS CON MARIO (Miguel Delibes, 1966): Ana Mª Matute, Dolores Medio, Mercé Rodoreda, Ignacio Aldecoa, Juan García Hortelano.
8. The boom of turn-of-the-century narrators: An open road to the emancipation of women: Carmen Martín Gaite, Esther Tusquets, Monserrat Roig, Carmen Riera, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Almudena Grandes, Belén Gopegui, Lucía Echevarría, Espido Freire…
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