Women Literature in Spain: The Search of an Identity

Abstract

If in the past, literary history scarcely offered names that captured a world vision from women point of view, feminine writers who, in the last third of 20th century, wrote to express themselves encountered a literary language that transmitted a tradition in which they, often straightjacketed in stereotypes such as donna angelicata, lover, mother, o sinner, were hardly represented. Hence, the difficulty to find out, through an inherited language, their own voice which would express their emotional universe. It is a task that feminine poets bring about, as it is showed in this work, starting from a revision of literary models, myths and believes of our culture, often making use of irony, what frequently leads to the recuperation of maternal image and to the search of a feminine genealogy.