Feminidad y vanguardia en dos de las artistas Españolas del grupo de las Sinsombrero : Rosa Chacel y María Zambrano

Abstract

This work aims to demonstrate the concerns on the issue of gender and femininity, in two works of two authors who were part of the group las Sinsombrero: Barrio de Maravillas (1976) by Rosa Chacel and Las palabras del regreso (1995) by María Zambrano. The objective of this investigation is none other than to study how the authors reflect in both of their works the social state of women in the majority of the 20th century and their progressive path towards emancipation. It will be studied how techniques and thoughts of the avant-garde iconography are inserted in both works and also how the avant-garde culture itself affected the artistic creation of the two authors in question. It will be studied how some of the characters in Chacel’s Barrio de Maravillas represent the new emancipated women and how art affected their personal growth. Likewise, we will study how María Zambrano’s thought, approached and solved problems about gender and identity through concepts such as the liberated word of language, existentialist philosophy and the concern of the human being in the 20th century. This dissertation begins with the study of the political, economic, social and cultural reality of Spain of the early 20th century, to study the links between society and the works of the two authors. The biographical data of Zambrano and Chacel is also analysed since their personal life is linked to their work. Followed by a detailed analysis of the two books in question based on the objectives outlines above. It is through this detailed analysis of both books that the researcher wants to show how their personal experience and society affected these author’s works.