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T1 “Un estado de la conciencia contemporánea”: género y moral en La sirena negra de Emilia Pardo Bazán
A1 Bardavío Estevan, Susana
K1 La sirena negra
K1 Emilia Pardo Bazán
K1 Gender
K1 Biopolitics
K1 Fin-de-siècle Literature
K1 Sexuality
K1 Literatura española
K1 Spanish literature
AB Despite Emilia Pardo Bazán’s prominent feminism, La sirena negra has beenstrangely overlooked by gender studies. When the novel was published in 1908,Gómez de Baquero judged it “non feminist” due to its superficial heroines and thecentrality of its complex masculine characters. Academic studies of La sirena negrahave not refuted this idea, since they have elided gender approaches to focus on itsdecadent aesthetics. This article argues, on the contrary, that the novel’s androcentrismcan be read as a Pardo Bazan’s strategy to appropriate the patriarchal discourseand hold it responsible for national degeneration. Emilia Pardo Bazán was harshlyaffected by the fin-de-siècle crisis. In her opinion, Spanish decay came from a lackof solid morality. Thus, Catholic principles should be restored because they wouldprovide the autoregulation mechanisms to regenerate and reassemble the country.Literature should show the new reality, and the French roman psychologique providedher with an appropriate model. La sirena negra sets out the problem of themoral anomie through its protagonist, Gaspar de Montenegro. The analysis of hissexuality and gender performance reveals the danger of this amoral behavior for thedegeneration of society, attributed ultimately to the patriarchal order and the androcentricdiscourse.
PB Springer
SN 0028-2677
YR 2022
FD 2022-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6153
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6153
LA spa
NO Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 19-abr-2024