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- Title: Catalonia Adrift: History, Myth, And Female Desire in Maria-Antonia Oliver's El Vaixell D'iras I No Tornaras.
- Author : Hispanofila
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 210 KB
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SINCE Franco's death in 1975, Catalonian women writers have emerged to chronicle the parallel histories of Catalanism and feminism. They speak bearing the burden of double repression, both as women in a patriarchal society that seeks to marginalize the feminine other, and as catalanas in a region oppressed by Franco's efforts to unify Spain under the banner of a single, national identity. Referring to the first day of Franco's Nationalist rule after the Spanish Civil War, Maria Aurelia Capmany expresses the sense of loss and disempowerment she experienced as a woman and as a Catalonian upon the victory of the patriarchal Nationalists: "My subconscious developed penis envy on April 1, 1939" (Charlon 119). Frequently, Catalonian women authors weave together this double mark of otherness in varying ways that unite the efforts for definition, both as nation and as self. By linking the histories of feminism and nation, both acquire a greater sharpness as the struggle for freedom, voice, and autonomy is waged. Maria-Antonia Oliver's 1976 novel, El vaixell d'iras i no tornaras (The Ship of No Return), manifests this double-voiced struggle, and spins on an axis of overlapping public and personal realms, before an increased interiorization in writing by Spanish women begins to dominate in the 1980's. Novels like Oliver's own Joana E. and Maria-Merce Roca's Cames de seda delve deep into the intimacy of first-person narrations. However, in El vaixell, Oliver straddles public and private through the use of a third person narrative accompanied by an intimate first-person narrative that retells the story. Such a strategy suggests the struggle that is waged between the private voice that searches to be heard and the public voice that threatens censorship.