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The radio texts of 1947 by Carmen Conde. Analysis and evaluation

Abstract

Carmen Conde is a key figure in radio historiography, in Spain. Her personal archive, kept a the Patronato Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver, in Cartagena, makes it possible to evaluate her extensive work, written expressly for the radio setting, with childhood, woman, literature and poetry especially dedicated contents. This paper focuses on the 1947 children’s radio scripts. From the analysis of its thematic and structural content, we will evaluate their undisputed testimonial and experiential writing, of express teaching and literary intentionality. In addition to the corpus of scripts from 1946 and 1947, this study uses other first-hand, personal documents, such as: correspondence, planners and photographs from the writer’s archive. These "egodocuments" acquire a prominent referential function; for they explain, on one side, the personal content of many radiophonic texts; on the other side, they show that 1947 is a key year in her life, since her Florentina del Mar pseudonym, with whom she speaks and writes for children, walks alongside Carmen Conde, the most insightful lyric voice of the national literary panorama that publishes Mujer sin Eden, her masterpiece.