María Xosé Queizán, la renaissance d´ une antigoneL´esprit d´Antigone dans les personnages féminins de l´oeuvre de María Xosé Queizán. Métaphore de la valeur et la force de la femme galicienne contre le pouvoir et la domination masculine

  1. Fente, Elvira
Supervised by:
  1. Annick Allaigre Director
  2. María Xosé Agra Romero Co-director

Defence university: Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis

Fecha de defensa: 20 June 2012

Committee:
  1. Mara Negrón Committee member
  2. Nadia Mékouar-Hertzberg Committee member

Type: Thesis

Abstract

This work aims to give María Xosé Queizán its rightful place as a theorist of feminism as a writer and Galician feminist. The socio-cultural construction of "being woman" is analyzed here through his speech, since the years after the Spanish Civil War, to today's society, from different perspectives and criteria necessary for its approach. The myth of Antigone appeared to us as the myth that comes to Queizán, the birth of feminism in Galicia long identified with Penelope. We therefore undertook its reassessment from the analysis of his play Antígona has forza do sangue, which allowed us to better understand the relationship between feminism and nationalism while confirming in us the idea that no character n is fully identifiable with the daughter of Oedipus among the creations of Queizán but many like him. The diffraction figure of Antigone is confirmed in his poetry and his novels. Transmission of patriarchal values through women who honor the system blindly, as opposed to the spirit of freedom of Antigone is a constant in the novels of Queizán, which are given to see the methods of social control of the female population. The darkness in the formation and development of the domestic work of women is ensuring the survival of patriarchy. But in counterpoint, one can follow individual strategies, more or less aware, a number of heroines around obstacles and sometimes become marginalized and lose, sometimes win their freedom and live. Prominent figure of the feminist struggle Galician, María Xosé Queizán, as a writer, is reclaiming the word monopolized by male values and rewrote the Galician literary genealogy. In this sense, it is probably the first of Antigone Galician, as Rosalia de Castro was the first of Penelope reason that led us to consider that it is there that the Antigone come to think that populate his literary work