Pobre pierna que sólo sirve para andar!” Female (Dis)empowerments, (Dis)ability, and Space in Literary and Filmic Tristana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9869575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Muñoz-Muriana (0009-0001-8125-4429, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485-498 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| 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.2015.0103 |
| OpenAlex | W2104904425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This current study explores the function of physical space as a metaphor for freedom and sexual expression in Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel Tristana (1892) and Luis Buñuel’s loose filmic adaptation (1970). The female walk, a foundational activity in the formative process of the subject, will serve Tristana as a path towards emancipation and freedom, and as an access to dangerous physical and social spaces. Tristana embodies a deviation from the “women belong in the home” cultural logic that existed in the late-nineteenth century and still prevailed in the first half of the twentieth century. The amputation marks a decisive turning point in the development of Tristana’s journey. However, as I show, the powerful relation between the female and her dwelling space pre- and post-amputation, along with the role of disability, establish significant differences—explained to a certain extent by the historical conditions—between the literary and filmic enunciations: while for Galdós, deviance and restraint go together and disablement serves to incapacitate the able-bodied female and wed her to a life of domesticity, Buñuel enables the disability to provide an empowering physical and social environment and challenge the traditional order
Aesthetics · Art · Deviance (statistics) · Emancipation · Formative assessment · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Theology · Gender Studies · Historical and Modern Theater Studies · Philosophy · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |