«Mujeres de pluma»

Literary networks and poetic dialogues between Ángela Figuera and Carmen Conde

Abstract

Although there is a majority critical consensus that there is no solid female group among post-war Spanish women poets (Payeras, 2009; Garcerá and Porpetta 2019), it is possible to notice between them ties and associations that seek to overcome cultural and social setbacks and vindicate their authorial and «sororal» facet in the adverse context of the Franco dictatorship. Thus, different textual and paratextual elements (dedications, titles, prologues, letters, etc.), together with their participation in gatherings (especially "Versos con faldas") and readings, their presence in anthologies, etc., reveal multiple strategies of cultural and literary sociability that allow us to think about a feminine network of affection and gender solidarity. In this paper we will focus on the biographical ties and poetic links between two of the most important voices of the period: Ángela Figuera Aymerich and Carmen Conde. Their poetic (self-)figurations and social roles as women who write will be analysed and put into dialogue, avoiding stereotypes or androcentric and patriarchal models that confined them to domesticity and silence.