Spanish Post-Franco Narrative by Women

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Since the final years of the Francoist dictatorship, women writers started to abandon the subterfuge strategies through which they had avoided the regime’s censorship. Soon they began to explicitly state issues that had been dangerous to mention previously, such as sex and female bodily experience, national and individual identity, collective and personal memory, and surrounding changing realities like consumerism, media, migration, counter cultural movements, globalization, and human (in)communication. Using journalistic collaborations and literary prizes, they wrote their way up to the editorial market and the Royal Academy of Language, becoming prominent figures in the aesthetic and gender debates of a new canon in the making. In this course we will analyze women's writing in post-Franco Spain from a variety of perspectives and theoretical positions to explore what it means to be a woman writer: to be feminine, to be queer, to be oneself, to be a part of, to be free.