Trauma and Resistance in the Short Story Corpus of Ana Maria Matute 1953-1962

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorBoggs, Bruce
dc.creatorLivesey, Janet Mary
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-27T21:21:13Z
dc.date.available2019-04-27T21:21:13Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractFrom 1953 to 1962 Ana María Matute Ausejo (b. 1926) published ten short story collections of and two additioinal stories.
dc.description.abstractThe project focuses on three central tenets: first, the physical and psychological trauma created in the wake of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and General Francisco Franco's treatment of Spain as an internal colony; second, the plight of the socio-political sphere of Spanish life during the decades after the Civil War, particularly as it relates to the Republican vencidos, women and children; and third, resistance to power, to repression, to patriarchy, and to alterity in Matute's short story corpus. Due to the political climate in mid-twentieth century Spain, Matute could only couch her dissention to the Régime in a subversive manner by disguising her critiques covertly within short stories of ambiguous narrative content. Had she been more overt in her criticism she would have risked censorship, punishment, and possible imprisonment.
dc.description.abstractConceiving post-War Spain as an internally colonized country has been explored before, but not through a reading of Matute's short stories. Analyzing this selection of short stories in this light offers the reader a new perspective on Matute studies because this corpus exposes a critique of the social, emotional, and physical traumas that existed in Spain in the mid-twentieth century. By evidencing her covert resistance to the Régime which caused the various traumas we visit a facet of Matute studies that has been relatively unexplored until this point.
dc.format.extent268 pages
dc.format.mediumapplication.pdf
dc.identifier99120547002042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/318471
dc.languageen_US
dc.relation.requiresAdobe Acrobat Reader
dc.subjectModern literature;Literature
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.
dc.titleTrauma and Resistance in the Short Story Corpus of Ana Maria Matute 1953-1962
dc.typetext
dc.typedocument
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Livesey_ou_0169D_11018.pdf
Size:
4.95 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

OU - Dissertations