The poet, dramatist, and scriptwriter Concha Méndez (1898-1986), like many of
the women of the Spanish Generation of 27, has been forgotten by the scholars that have
been working in this generation. Few articles analyze the work done by Concha Méndez,
but there are still some of Méndezs texts that are unknown and so many questions about
her work that we already know.
As far as we know Méndez was influenced by her generations colleagues, such
as the poets Alberti and Lorca. We dont know anything about the influence from her
women colleagues.
Concha Méndez was not only supported by her family, but she was condemned
and rejected for being a woman who did not follow the social rules in those times in
Spain. But she decided to be a poet and an independent woman. In order to pursue that,
she had to suffer exile many times during her life.
In her first exile Méndez met Maruja Mallo, a painter who was always breaking
the socials rules and fighting for the liberation of women. Together they enjoyed an
intellectual life and they contributed to enrich it and to destroy the image of woman as
an obedient and submissive mother and wife. After that experience, she traveled to
Argentina. She was in her second exile when she met Consuelo Berges, a writer. Berges
offered her friendship to Méndez and also her influence in intellectual circles. Later,
when Méndez had to suffer political exile after the Spanish Civil War, she reinforced her
friendship with María Zambrano, a philosopher who also lived in exile and who was
always there to advise her about her works and support her from the pain of many
personal incidents.
All these friendships are traces in her work. My thesis is going to study all these
traces in order to better know Méndezs works and also to expand the study of the
women in the Generation of 27, which has been studied from a mans perspective very
well but still lacks study from a womans point of view.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/1530 |
| Date | 17 February 2005 |
| Creators | Trallero Cordero, Maria del Mar |
| Contributors | Luiselli, Alessandra |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 464050 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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