26021 - Spanish Women's Literature

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Moduli: Edoardo Balletta (Modulo 1) Eugenio Maggi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Learning outcomes

The student possesses in-depth knowledge of Spanish women's literature. He knows and is capable to use practical methodologies for the analysis and the interpretation of the literary text.

Course contents

The course, divided into two modules, aims to retrace the history of female writing in the twentieth century of the Spanish language, focusing in particular on the Iberian and Mexican context.
FIRST MODULE (Prof. Balletta): Female writing in twentieth-century Mexico
Starting from Rosario Castellanos (Balun Canan), a feminine journey is proposed in Mexican literature with the reading of fundamental writers of the 20th century as, in addition to the already mentioned Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Cristina Rivera Garza and Sandra Lorenzano.
SECOND MODULE (Prof. Maggi): the Spanish case
The module aims to retrace, through significant works by Spanish writers, the long journey of claiming and redefining female identity in twentieth-century Spain, from the radical changes of the Second Republic, through the forms of resistance experienced during the almost forty years of Francoist dictatorship, up to the enthusiasm and shadows of the democratic transition.

Readings/Bibliography

FIRST PART:

Primary Sources:

Castellanos Rosario, Balun-Canan, México, Fondo de cultura economica, 1961 (stampa 1973).

Rivera Garza Cristina, Nadie me verá llorar, México, Tusquets, 2003.

Poniatowska Elena, La noche de Tlatelolco : testimonios de historia oral, México, Ediciones Era, 1971 [2014].

Lorenzano Sandra, La estirpe del silencio, México, Seix Barral, 2015.

Lorenzano Sandra, Fuga en mi menor, México, Tusquets, 2014.

Secondary sources:

Negrete Sandoval, Julia Érika. “Archivo, Memoria y Ficción en Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza.” Literatura mexicana 24.1 (2013): 91-110.

Bruce-Novoa, Juan. “Elena Poniatowska: The Feminist Origins of Commitment.” Women’s Studies International Forum 6(5).5. Elsevier, 1983. 509-16.

Gelpí, Juan G. “Testimonio Periodístico Y Cultura Urbana En La Noche De Tlatelolco De Elena Poniatowska.” CELEHIS: Revista del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas 12 (2000): 285-308.

González Luna, Anamaria. “Exilio Y Búsqueda Del Padre En Fuga En Mí Menor De Sandra Lorenzano.” Altre Modernità (2014): 79-92.

Martínez Rubio, José. “Rita Hayworth Murió Sin Saber Quién Era. Fronteras Del Conocimiento Y Del Relato En La Estirpe Del Silencio, De Sandra Lorenzano.” Philobiblion: revista de literaturas hispánicas 5 (2017).

Lynam, Jessica. “Un Palimpsesto Renuente: Reescribiendo a La Mujer Y El Futuro En” Nadie Me Verá Llorar” De Cristina Rivera Garza.” Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese(2013): 505-14.

Gil Iriarte, María Luisa. “Balún Canán: La Voz De Una Antígona Mexicana.” Anales de literatura hispanoamericana 27 Servicio de Publicaciones, 1998. 297-310.

Castro Ricalde, Maricruz. “Diversidad sexual y liminalidad en Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza” en Adriana Sáenz Valadez y Cándida Elizabeth Vivero Marín (coords).Reflexiones en torno a la escritura femenina. México: Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2011. 241-269.

SECOND PART:

Primary Sources

Carnés, Luisa, "Tea Rooms. Mujeres obreras" [1934] (ed. A. Plaza, Hoja de Lata, 2016)

Carnés, Luisa, "Trece cuentos (1931-1963)" (Hoja de Lata, 2017)

Chacón, Dulce, "La voz dormida" (Alfaguara, 2002)

Martín Gaite, Carmen, "Entre visillos" [1957] (Destino, 2012)

Sanz, Marta, "Daniela Astor y la caja negra" (Anagrama, 2013)

Secondary Sources:

Balló, Tània, "Las sinsombrero" (Espasa, 2016)

Carnés, Luisa, "De Barcelona a la Bretaña francesa (Memorias)" (ed. A. Plaza, Renacimiento, 2014)

Fonseca, Carlos, "Trece rosas rojas y la Rosa 14" (Planeta, 2017)

Fuente, Inmaculada de la, "Mujeres de la posguerra" (Planeta, 2002)

Hernández Holgado, Fernando, "Mujeres encarceladas" (Marcial Pons, 2003)

Jiménez Tomé, María José, et al. (eds.), "Escritoras españolas e hispanoamericanas en el exilio" (Universidad de Málaga, 2005)

León, María Teresa, "Memoria de la melancolía" [1970] (ed. G. Torres Nebrera, Castalia, 1998)

Martín Gaite, Carmen, "Usos amorosos de la postguerra española" [1987] (Anagrama, 2017)

Mayans Natal, María Jesús, "Narrativa feminista española de posguerra" (Pliegos, 1991)

Nieva de la Paz, Pilar, "Escritoras españolas contemporáneas: identidad y vanguardia" (Peter Lang, 2018)

Rodrigo, Antonina, "Mujer y exilio, 1939" (Flor del Viento, 2003)

Rolón-Collazo, Lissette, "Figuraciones: mujeres en Carmen Martín Gaite, revistas feministas y Hola" (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2002)

Sanz, Marta, "Éramos mujeres jóvenes: una educación sentimental de la transición española" (Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2016)

Sanz, Marta, "Monstruas y centauras. Nuevos lenguajes del feminismo" (Anagrama, 2018)

Villalba Álvarez, Marina (ed.), "Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo 20" (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2000)

Teaching methods

The course includes, in addition to lectures, the seminar investigation of certain issues relating to the sources studied, as well as the instruments, theoretical and methodological, relevant to their study (more information in this regard will be provided during class).

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of an oral test that aims to assess the critical and methodological skills gained by the student, who will be invited to discuss the texts in the program. The student must demonstrate 1) the ability to orientate themselves in the Spanish-American cultural and literary history 2) an appropriate knowledge of the contents and the bibliography indicated in the program, 3) make links between the course topics, 4) illustrate the salient features of the works taken under consideration and treated during the lessons.
The student's achievement of an organic vision of the topics dealt with in a joint lesson with their critical use, the demonstration of an expressive mastery and specific language will be evaluated with marks of excellence.
The mostly mnemonic knowledge of the subject, in-depth synthesis and analysis skills and a correct but not always appropriate language will lead to discrete evaluations.
Approximate knowledge, superficial understanding, poor analytical skills and not always appropriate expression will lead to evaluations between sufficiency and little more.
Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the contents and bibliographic materials proposed in the program can only be evaluated negatively.

Teaching tools

Images, texts and slides. For a better organization of materials and contents the online platform of the course will be used: materials made available are INTEGRANT and NECESSARY (but not sufficient) of the exam program.

Office hours

See the website of Edoardo Balletta

See the website of Eugenio Maggi

SDGs

Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.