Views and Voices of the Working Class
Aída and Rosario
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4164304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria T Pao (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 498-509 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2014.0085 |
| OpenAlex | W2027039992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
In 2005, Spanish television audiences saw the debut of the nation's first spinoff, the sitcom Aída . The show featured the tribulations of its title character and her working-class family in their struggle to "llegar a fin de mes." It seemed to promise a sensibility enacted in the US series Roseanne , where another eponymous heroine faced similar conditions with wit and verve. Aída became a tremendous hit for its network, Telecinco, but unlike Roseanne , its approach to the working class did not break new ground. Such a distinction belongs to another cultural product also appearing in 2005, Elvira Lindo's novel, Una palabra tuya . Consisting of a first-person narration by Rosario, a municipal street sweeper, the novel delivers working-class credentials through an insider's view and focuses on the physical conditions and labor of work, nonaestheticization and nonidealization of working-class life, and the consciousness of a multiple we voiced through the narrator's I
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Class (philosophy) · Consciousness · Epistemology · Insider · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics) · Sensibility · Sociology · Working class · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |