The Subaltern Cannot Speak But Performs: Women's Public and Literary Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Spain.
This article deals with the concept of the literary and proposes that, in order to study women's culture in nineteenth-century Spain, other social classes and other cultural forms must be incorporated. In the case of subaltern women, performance is the main cultural form that must be addressed, as e...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Research Journal Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 73 - 96 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=12164472&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 12164472 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14682737 PJT jtl: Hispanic Research Journal issn: 14682737 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2004 vid: 5 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 12164472 10.1179/hrj.2004.5.1.73 ppf: 73 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 3.1MB tig: atl: The Subaltern Cannot Speak But Performs: Women's Public and Literary Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Spain. aug: au: Gabilondo, Joseba affil: University of Nevada, Reno su: Literature Women Culture Social classes Performing arts Spain sug: subj: Spain Literature Women Culture Social classes Performing arts ab: This article deals with the concept of the literary and proposes that, in order to study women's culture in nineteenth-century Spain, other social classes and other cultural forms must be incorporated. In the case of subaltern women, performance is the main cultural form that must be addressed, as exemplified by the case of flamenco and Böhl de Faber's costumbrista literature. After analysing Pardo Bazán's 'La mujer española', the article concludes that the literary is a subset of a larger performative culture that encompasses women of different social classes and affects both the public and private spheres, so that the literary becomes part of a larger cultural practice involving fashion, photography and print, promenading, theatre, etc. As a result, women are reconsidered as central subjects of a public Spanish performance culture, rather than marginal writers and readers. This historicization permits the article to redefine naturalism (Galdós) as a masculine literary reaction to women's public performative culture. Finally, the article addresses subaltern theory (Spivak) in order to criticize a literary-centred understanding of the ways in which the subaltern subject (does not) speak, which are an effect of Derrida's own literary theorizing of culture. The article defends the argument that performance theory helps to rethink the subaltern subject as performative, and as such, as being capable of speaking and acting politically. Este artculo estudia el concepto de lo literario y propone que, para estudiar la cultura de las mujeres en la Espaa del siglo xix, es necesario incorporar otras clases sociales y formas culturales. En el caso de la mujer subalterna, la actuacin (performance) es la forma cultural principal que se debe estudiar, como lo ejemplifica el caso del flamenco y la literatura costumbrista de Bhl de Faber. Tras analizar 'La mujer espaola' de Pardo Bazn, el artulo concluye que lo literario es una subseccin de una cultura ms amplia de la actuacin que abarca a mujeres de clases sociales diferentes y afecta tanto a la esfera pblica como la privada, de tal manera que lo literario se convierte en parte de una prctica cultural ms amplia que incluye la moda, la fotografa y la grfica, el paseo, el teatro, etc. Como resultado las mujeres pasan a situarse como sujetos centrales de una cultura espaola pblica de actuacin en vez de escritoras y lectoras marginales. Esta historizacin permite redefinir el naturalismo (Galds) como una reaccin masculinista a la cultura pblica y actuativa de la mujeres. Finalmente el artculo aborda la teora subalterna (Spivak) y critica la forma centrada en lo literario de esta teora para comprender las formas en que lo subalterno (no) habla, que son a su vez consecuencia de la teorizacin literaria de la cultura de Derrida. El artculo defiende el argumento que la teora de la actuacin nos permite repensar al/a subalterno/a como sujeto que acta, y por lo tanto, es capaz de hablar y de actuar polticamente. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Hispanic Research Journal is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Hispanic Research Journal holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2004 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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