Representaciones de género y violencia en las novelistas españolas de la postransición

After Francisco Franco‘s dictatorship (1939-75) a new chapter in the history of Spain opened. The end of the regimen and the subsequent process of democratisation implied obvious changes in the political and social arena, which had immense and progressive effects on Spanish society and its dynamics. From the 1960s women started to take action to recover their rights, dramatically lost under the Francoist regime. Literature written by women is parallel to the development of the feminist movements in the country and the progressive modification of women‘s role in society. Women artists started to question their role in society and introduced in their productions questions of gender violence, power and identity. This thesis aims to examine and analyse those questions in the work of different women writers in contemporary Spain across three different periods. The project will focus on the following writers and novels: Te trataré como a una reina (1983) by Rosa Montero, Malena es un nombre de tango (1994) by Almudena Grandes, Algún amor que no mate (1996) by Dulce Chacón, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998) by Lucía Etxebarría, Luna lunera (1999) by Rosa Regás and Un largo silencio (2000) by Ángeles Caso.