La extraña ignoradaEstudio comparativo de Catalina de Aragón como personaje en la novela histórica británica y española contemporánea de autoría femenina

  1. José Igor Prieto Arranz 1
  2. María Gómez Martín 2
  1. 1 Departamento de Filología Española, Moderna y Clásica de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (España)
  2. 2 Área de Historia e Instituciones Económicas de la Universidad de Cádiz (España)
Journal:
Atlánticas: revista internacional de estudios feministas

ISSN: 2530-2736

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: Ecocrítica: De los feminismo(s) a los ecofeminismo(s): Análisis literarios y culturales

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Pages: 100-132

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17979/ARIEF.2023.8.1.8759 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Historical fiction, enormously influential in contemporary literature, is generally set in periods that historiography identifies as foundational (thus contributing to either reinforcing or deconstructing national identity discourses), and has been found especially useful by women authors to revise official historiography’s patriarchal discourse so as to vindicate the role of women.This article offers a comparative study of the representations of Catherine of Aragon in contemporary British and Spanish historical fiction by women authors. The rationale behind it is the contrast between the central role she played in a foundational episode of British historiography (the English Reformation) and the fact that her figure has been relegated to relative obscurity both in official historiography and earlier fictional accounts, like Calderón de la Barca’s. With this aim in mind, this research will cover the fictional representations offered by Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Hilary Mantel in Britain, and Pilar Queralt del Hierro, Magdalena Lasala and Almudena de Artega in Spain.

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