Version, Subversion, and Parody: Postfeminist Proposals in Almudena Grande’s “Malena, una vida hervida”

Version, Subversion, and Parody: Postfeminist Proposals in Almudena Grande’s “Malena, una vida hervida”

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  • Alicia Rueda Acedo University of Texas at Arlington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v15i31.626

Abstract

Version, Subversion, and Parody: Postfeminist Proposals in Almudena Grande’s “Malena, una vida hervida”

Abstract: This article analyzes Almudena Grandes’s “Malena, una vida hervida” as a paradigmatic representation of the postfeminist proposals that the Spanish author presents in her work. Grandes’s literary work constantly criticizes and distances itself from traditional and patriarchal women roles, questioning at the same time a variety of feminist principles.

In this short story, compiled in Modelos de mujer, Grandes criticizes the parameters of beauty established by society while rethinking eroticism and its relation to food. To aim this goal, the author presents a version, subversion and parody of masculine and feminine models emphasizing the impossibility to escape from the feminine model imposed by patriarchy.

Keywords: Almudena Grandes, postfeminism, patriarchal models, erotism, food

Author Biography

Alicia Rueda Acedo, University of Texas at Arlington

Alicia Rita Rueda Acedo es doctora en Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas por la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara, licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad de Sevilla y en Traducción por la de Granada. Actualmente imparte clases de literatura española contemporánea, traducción e interpretación en la Universidad de Texas en Arlington. Es autora de Miradas transatlánticas: el periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero (2012) y sus áreas de investigación son la literatura transatlántica de los siglos XX y XXI, los estudios de género, el periodismo literario y la traducción comunitaria.

 

 

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Published

2023-01-10

How to Cite

Rueda Acedo, A. (2023). Version, Subversion, and Parody: Postfeminist Proposals in Almudena Grande’s “Malena, una vida hervida”: Version, Subversion, and Parody: Postfeminist Proposals in Almudena Grande’s “Malena, una vida hervida”. Valenciana, 16(31), 79–103. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v15i31.626

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No. 31 (2023): Valenciana, enero-junio 2023

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