Name:

Mónica Gonzalez Pereira

Dissertation title:

Carmen Baroja’s Literary Work

Name of the advisor:

Carmen Luna Sellés

Line of research:

Literatura en lengua española y literatura comparada

Abstract:

The aim of this dissertation is to study the literary work of Carmen Baroja, since she has gone unnoticed for the history of 20th-century literature and for critics in general. There are few bibliographical references studying her role as writer, ethnographer and goldsmith apart from some general ideas. Due partly to her being a woman, Carmen Baroja was a modest woman “raised the Spanish way”, who lived overshadowed by her two brothers, Pío and Ricardo Baroja. However, Carmen wrote a children’s tale, titled Martinito el de la Casa Grande, a poem book; Tres Barojas: Poemas, apart from her memories Recuerdos de una mujer de la generación del 98 published by the professor Amparo Hurtado Díaz. Some of her works are still unpublished today: a comedy titled La Frivolidad, several narrations; a nouvelle and two film scripts, based on two of her brother Pío Baroja’s novels: The City of the Discreet and Las noches del Buen Retiro. From 1938, she collaborated with the literary magazine Mujer and frequently published articles for the Buenos Aires magazine La Nación. Not to mention her active participation in family theatre, El Mirlo Blanco and the Lyceum Club Femenino, in which, together with women such as María de Maeztu, Victoria Kent, María Zambrano and Zenobia Camprubí, she fought for women’s emancipation.
This intense intellectual and artistic activity carried out by Carmen Baroja makes us deliberate on the importance of her literary and artistic corpus and whether or not she deserves a place in the history of 20th-century Spanish literature.

Program:

2017-2018

Keywords:

feminism, memories, Lyceum Club Femenino, El Mirlo Blanco

Translation:

Original language