26021 - Spanish Women's Literature

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 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

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),

"La lección de anatomía" (Anagrama, 2014)

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)

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

For the oral exam, in addition to knowing the main topics of the course, the student will have to study in depth three texts chosen from those included in the program (primary sources).

 

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 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

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