Sentimental education as political weapon: From Montserrat Roig to Marta Sanz.

This work traces the affinities between Montserrat Roig, and Marta Sanz, to show a continuity between the patriarchal structures of Francoism and those of the Transition as illustrated in two of their novels. It reflects on the heteropatriarchal legacy of Franco's regime by analysing the importance of the role of sentimentality when subverting the distance that goes from representation to self-representation of women's bodies and subjectivities within a cultural (literary) canon that remains ostensibly masculine. This comparison between both authors brings to light the way in which they problematize their own internalization of a patriarchal male gaze, and how they mobilize strategies to counter the social discourses that have led to that internalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabajo examina las afinidades entre Montserrat Roig y Marta Sanz para mostrar una continuidad entre las estructuras patriarcales del franquismo y las de la Transición como se ilustra en dos de sus novelas. Reflexiona sobre el legado hetero-patriarcal del régimen de Franco a través del análisis de la importancia del papel de la sentimentalidad cuando esta subvierte la distancia que va de la representación de los cuerpos y subjetividades de las mujeres a su autorrepresentación dentro de un canon cultural (literario) que sigue siendo aparentemente masculino. Esta compara-ción entre ambas autoras subraya la forma en que problematizan su propia internalización de una mirada masculina patriarcal, y cómo movilizan estrategias para contrarrestar los discursos sociales que han llevado a esa internalización. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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