※　母・娘・姉妹という檻を書き換える、フランコ後スペイン女性作家の逸脱の系譜　※

本書は、フランシスコ・フランコ(1892

1975)の死後に登場した3世代のスペイン人女性作家、カルメ・リエラ、クリスティナ・フェルナンデス・クバス、メルセデス・アバドの物語世界を検討する研究書です。著者マリア・ディフランチェスコは、国家による検閲の縛りから解放されたこの3人の作家が、サッフォー的な恋人から怪物的な母親に至るまで、物議を醸す女性主体を執拗に描くことでジェンダーやセクシュアリティをめぐる言説の限界を押し広げてきたと論じ、当初の革新性にとどまらず、それぞれが存命中に文学的正典としての地位を確立するに至った持続力にこそ本書の関心の中心があるとしています。3人の作品に共通する主題である女性の主体性と逸脱を世代的な観点から捉え直し、リエラ、フェルナンデス・クバス、アバドの描く女性主人公たちが単に家父長的な権力構図を反転させるだけでなく、女性が伝統的に占めてきたジェンダー範疇そのものを問い直し不安定化させていることを、著者は各作家に一章ずつを割いて「母」「娘」「姉妹」という範疇の書き換えのあり方を分析しながら明らかにしています。

[対象年代、研究分野]
対象年代はフランコ体制終焉後(1970年代以降)の現代スペインであり、該当する研究分野はスペイン現代文学研究、ジェンダー研究・フェミニズム批評、女性作家研究、比較文学などです。これらの分野を専門とする読者を対象としています。
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Description:
In Feminine Agency and Transgression in Post Franco Spain, Maria DiFrancesco explores three generations of Spanish fiction writers who emerged following the death of Francisco Franco (1892-1975). Freed of the strictures of state mandated censorship, these three women have pushed the limits of sexual and gender related discourse by relentlessly depicting controversial female agents in their narratives, from Sapphic lovers to monstrous mothers. What is most interesting about these authors is that they have gone beyond their initial revolutionary status to exhibit literary staying power, achieving canonical standing within their own lifetimes.

Dealing with the underlying theme common among their narratives - feminine agency and transgression as expressed in generational terms - DiFrancesco fills a gap in scholarship by exploring the ways in which female protagonists portrayed in works by Riera, Fernandez Cubas and Abad do not simply invert patriarchal paradigms of power but rather interrogate and destabilize isomorphic gendered categories that women have traditionally occupied. DiFrancesco dedicates one chapter to each author, analyzing the ways in which each rewrites the categories of «mother», «daughter», and «sister» in her narratives.

DiFrancesco ostensibly concludes that Riera, Fernandez Cubas and Abad have written a formidable body of literature that foregrounds female becoming as constantly negotiated. She suggests that, for each of these writers, being a female agent of transgression has little to do with the successes or failures of feminist political agendas and much more to do with an acknowledgment that categories which have defined women - «mother», «daughter», and «sister» - simply mark becomings that point to multi-dimensional forms of gender categorization. Riera, Fernandez Cubas and Abad thus maintain their popular status because they resist making categorical political statements about what is liberating and what is oppressive while uniquely shedding light on the ways women write their own stories, create their own mythos, and with it, their own locus of power.


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Introduction….7

2. Carme Riera’s Fiction: Traces of Sapphic Love and the Case of the(Missing?) Erotic Mother….17

3. Cristina Fernandez Cubas: Girls, Women, and the Games they Play……73

4. Erotica or Monstrous Subtexts in Mercedes Abad’s Ligeros libertinajes sabaticos and Sangre….161

Conclusion….205

Bibliography…..211