AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course deals with the literature written by women in the spanish twentieth century, with particular reference to the authors silenced by Franco's military dictatorship and forgotten in the era of the Transition. The course aims to include them into the canon of contemporary Spanish literature from which they were excluded till now.

Through attendance at the course and individual study, the students will learn about the ideological evolution of Spain from the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, with particular reference to the first policies in favor of female emancipation and their historical and political context. The students will be able to relate the great European cultural currents with the works and authors studied, also establishing links between them.

TEACHING METHODS

36 hours of lectures in spanish with the help of multimedia material.

Before each lesson, the teacher will upload on Aulaweb the literary texts that will be commented, so that students can have them with them in class. The teacher will also upload support material and suggestions for those wishing to autonomously expand the study of a specific theme.

The teacher will also use Aulaweb to communicate with students, who are therefore invited to sign-in on the course page on this platform.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The beginnings of feminist movements in the 19th century.

Institutions and cultural centers that have promoted women's education and female empowerment in Spain.

Civil rights and the parliamentary battles to obtain them; the political debate on universal suffrage.

The forerunners: Concepción Arenal, Carmen de Burgos, María de Maeztu, Clara Campoamor, Victoria Kent.

Las Sinsombrero and the Generación del 27: María Zambrano, María Teresa León, Josefina de la Torre, Rosa Chacel, Ernestina de Champourcín, Concha Méndez, Luisa Carnés, Elisabeth Mulder, Carmen Conde, Pilar de Valderrama.

Presence of female writers in the literary circles of the 1920s and 1930s.

Spanich civil war and exile.

The reconstruction of historical cultural memory.

The new trends of literary criticism and the proposal of a new canon of contemporary Spanish literature.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For attending students:

1. Lecture notes

2. An anthology of texts available in Aulaweb

3. Alessia Cassani, María de Maeztu: los conflictos de la hora actual, in Carmen Gil Fombellida and Larraitz Ariznabarreta (coord..), Exilio y humanidades. Las rutas de la Cultura. Ochenta años después, San Sebastián, Hamaika Bide Elkartea, 2021, pp. 125-140 (Available on Aulaweb).

4. Castillo Martín, Marcia, Contracorriente: Memorias de escritoras de los años veinte, “Espéculo (Revista de estudios literarios)”, Madrid, 17, 2001 (online).

5. Nuñez Rey, Concepción, El ensayismo de Carmen de Burgos, Colombine, en defensa de la igualdad de la mujer, “Estudios Románicos”, Vol. 27, 2018, pp. 61-74 (available on Aulaweb)

6. A text chosen by one of the authors studied, to be agreed with the teacher

For non-attending students:

1. AA.VV., Peces en la tierra. Antología de mujeres poetas en torno a la Generación del 27, Edición de Pepa Merlo, Sevilla, Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2010.

2. AA.VV., Con voz propia. La mujer en la literatura española de los siglos XIX y XX, Valladolid, Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua / Junta de Castilla y León, 2006.

3. Castillo Martín, Marcia, Contracorriente: Memorias de escritoras de los años veinte, “Espéculo (Revista de estudios literarios)”, Madrid, 17, 2001 (online).

4. Nuñez Rey, Concepción, El ensayismo de Carmen de Burgos, Colombine, en defensa de la igualdad de la mujer, “Estudios Románicos”, Vol. 27, 2018, pp. 61-74 (available on Aulaweb).

5. Cassani, Alessia, María de Maeztu: los conflictos de la hora actual, in Carmen Gil Fombellida and Larraitz Ariznabarreta (coord..), Exilio y humanidades. Las rutas de la Cultura. Ochenta años después, San Sebastián, Hamaika Bide Elkartea, 2021, pp. 125-140 (Available on Aulaweb).

6. A text chosen by one of the authors studied, to be agreed with the teacher

Further bibliographic reference (optional):

Alonso Valero, Encarna, Feminismo y vanguardia. La producción literaria femenina en la España de los años 20 y 30, “Pandora: Féminité(s), Revue de l’Université Paris VIII” (5): (2005), pp. 163-169.

Castillo Martín, Marcia, Las convidadas de papel. Mujer, memoria y literatura en la España de los años veinte, Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares, Centro Asesor de la Mujer, 2001.

Miró, Emilio, Antología de poetisas del 27, Madrid, Castalia, 1999.

Zavala, Iris M., Breve historia feminista de la Literatura Española (en lengua Castellana): V. La literatura escrita por mujer (Del siglo XIX a la actualidad), Barcelona, Anthropos, 1998.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ALESSIA CASSANI (President)

MARCO SUCCIO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The course starts on February 2025

Please register on the corresponding page of Aulaweb, where you can find further information and any notices.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam consists of an oral interview in Spanish on the topics covered by the course. During the exam, students will have to demonstrate that they have acquired general theoretical knowledge and also that they know how to comment and frame the literary texts that will be proposed (previously analyzed in class). The ability to critically re-elaborate the contents studied and to establish connections and analogies between works, authors and literary currents will be positively evaluated.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The student will have to demonstrate knowledge of the bibliography in the program and the course notes (for attending students), and be able to read, paraphrase, comment and contextualize a proposed literary text. Students will have to demonstrate:

- Know the themes and the stylistic and ideological evolution of the literature of the periods studied;

- Know how to comment and analyze the proposed literary texts and contextualize them;

- Understand the original texts, primary and secondary literature on the proposed topics.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with prof. Sara Dickinson (sara.dickinson@unige.it), the Department's disability liaison. Further information available at https://unige.it/disabilita-dsa.