Resisting Imposed Identities in Postwar Fictions of the Self: Carmen Laforet's Nada (1945) and Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945).
The early years of the dictatorship saw a forceful attempt to restore the repressive nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century role of women in line with the social codes of Francoist Spain. The redesigning of the primary curriculum for girls, the revising of school textbooks, and the pervasive circul...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Research Journal Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 612 - 629 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=185784962&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 185784962 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14682737 PJT jtl: Hispanic Research Journal issn: 14682737 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2024 vid: 24 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 185784962 10.1080/14682737.2025.2484946 ppf: 612 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Resisting Imposed Identities in Postwar Fictions of the Self: Carmen Laforet's Nada (1945) and Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945). aug: au: Lawlor, Hannie affil: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK su: Women's writings Chacel, Rosa Nada (Book) Memorias de Leticia Valle (Book) Laforet, Carmen sug: subj: Women's writings Chacel, Rosa Nada (Book) Memorias de Leticia Valle (Book) Laforet, Carmen keyword: autoridad narrativa escritura de mujeres España del siglo XX ficciones del yo fictions of the self narrative authority twentieth-century Spain women's writing ab: The early years of the dictatorship saw a forceful attempt to restore the repressive nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century role of women in line with the social codes of Francoist Spain. The redesigning of the primary curriculum for girls, the revising of school textbooks, and the pervasive circulation of women's magazines became instruments in the reconstruction of a rigid and reductive model of female selfhood. At the same time as literature was co-opted by the regime in the re-imposition of this identity, however, it was mobilized by certain women writers as a space within which to resist it. This article explores first-person fictions of the self as a subversive strategy in the face of enforced identities, through a study of two texts published in 1945, one in Spain and the other in exile: Carmen Laforet's Nada and Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle. While in many ways very different, these texts share a powerful insistence on the complex and elusive identities of their female narrators, and on the agency these young women hold in articulating them. Foregrounding the power of the female voice and of self-characterization, they become sites of resistance to assumptions about women's identity, fixed power dynamics, and singular histories. Los primeros años de la dictadura franquista estuvieron señalados por los intentos del Régimen por imponer un modelo de feminidad extremadamente restrictivo, propio de la centuria previa. El rediseño del currículo de educación primaria para niñas, la revisión de los libros de texto y la circulación de revistas de mujeres se convirtieron en herramientas para reconstruir un modelo rígido y restrictivo de identidad femenina. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo que el Régimen se apropiaba de la literatura para reimponer tal identidad, ciertas escritoras encontraban en sus novelas un espacio desde el cual resistirla. Este artículo considera las ficciones del yo como una estrategia subversiva frente a las identidades impuestas, a través del estudio de dos textos publicados en 1945, uno en España y el otro en el exilio: Nada, de Carmen Laforet, y Memorias de Leticia Valle, de Rosa Chacel. Aunque ambas obras difieren en muchos aspectos, comparten una insistencia poderosa en las identidades complejas y evasivas de sus narradoras y en la voluntad que tienen estas jóvenes para moldearlas. Al enfatizar el poder de la auto-caracterización, se hacen espacios de resistencia a las suposiciones sobre la identidad femenina, las dinámicas de poder fijas y las historias únicas. 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: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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