RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Spanish history and female characters. Representations of women in Spanish historical fiction T2 Historia española y personajes femeninos. Representaciones de mujer en la ficción histórica española A1 Chicharro Merayo, María del Mar K1 Television K1 Soap opera K1 Woman K1 Historical fiction K1 Public K1 Messages K1 Televisión K1 Telenovela K1 Mujeres K1 Ficción histórica K1 Públicos K1 Mensajes K1 Comunicación K1 Communication AB This article provides some thoughts on how serialized fiction may be utilized to reconstruct history. More specifically, it considers how some television series have helped to make a re-reading of past Spanish society by focusing on female characters.Three pieces of historical fiction were thoroughly analyzed from a semantic perspective. These series reconstructed different periods in Spanish history (Amar en tiempos revueltos[Loving in Troubled Times], La Señora [The Lady] and 14 de abril. La República [April 14, the Republic].This article holds that these stories articulate an interconnected representation of social change in Spain, with a leading role being allocated to female figures. They depict increasingly empowered women characters who had an increasing presence in the public and, particularly, in the political sphere. Qualitative content analysis was used to unravel the narrative and semantics of these audio-visual texts. PB Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México SN 1405-1435 YR 2018 FD 2018-03 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8098 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8098 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 08-may-2024