Beyond Witchy Women: Rewriting Narratives of Rural Feminine Senescence and Superstition in "La santa de Karnar" and "En el castillo de Sobroso" by Emilia Pardo Bazán.

This essay analyzes positive representations of superstition and aged femininity in Emilia Pardo Bazán's travel narrative "Enelcastillo de Sobroso" (1888) and her short story "La santa de Karnar" (1891). These works rewrite negative narratives of aging popular in Galician folksongs, which frequently...

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Publicado en:Hispanic Review Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 1 - 26
Autor principal: Miller, Gabrielle
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Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2022
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