The Struggle for Autonomy in Galdos's Tristana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10614521 |
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| Authors | Akiko Tsuchiya (0000-0003-4245-5399) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 330 |
| Publication date | 1989-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2905143 |
| OpenAlex | W2332865597 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
A great deal of criticism on Galdos's Tristana has focused on the question of feminism. From the time of its first publication, readers of the novel have tried to reconcile, in different ways, the apparent inconsistency between the central position given to the protagonist's feminist consciousness and what they perceive to be the anti-feminist ending of the work. Emilia Pardo Bazaln, in one of the first readings of the work, censures Galdos's failure to develop the asunto interno originally promised by the novel: el despertar del entendimiento y la conciencia de una mujer sublevada contra una sociedad que la condena a perpetua infamia y no le abre ninguin camino honroso para ganarse la vida (1 120).1 Among more recent critics, Emilio Miro, while he considers Galdos to be an advocate of women's freedom, attributes Tristana's failure to un mal entendido feminismo based solely on illusions (521). According to Edward Friedman, the ironic voice of the narrator
Art · Autonomy · Literature · Political science · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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