Revue Hybrides (Dec 2023)
Déconstruction du discours patriarcal dans Memoria de la melancolía de María Teresa León
Abstract
In certain societies, patriarchy has excluded for long time women from the domain of culture and politics, by exploiting an androcentric discourse : a woman cannot be a heroine-narrator, nor have her own story to tell, nor a public life, nor play politics in the same way as a man. In few words, she is deprived of any civil rights. The present work highlights the deconstruction of such a hermeneutic heresy by the committed feminist Maria Teresa León in Memoria de la melancolía, her life story where, through the reconstruction of social codes, sheds light on another image of a multidimensional and exceptional Spanish woman from the Spain of the Second Republic, the civil war, the Franco dictatorship and exile. Theories of autobiography and feminist theories of egalitarianism from the 1950s allow us to understand that feminism, advocated through the life of this political and literary woman, constitutes a vibrant testimony to imbibe the conquest of freedooms and of the emancipation of woman in a field essentially dominated by a phallocratic system. It also emerges from this analysis that, in the face of misogynistic stereotypes, she expresses full and complete idea of creative, brillant, conquering, rebellious woman, who enjoys the right to school, to work and to politics since her fight is based on the emergence of a world that is passionate about greater social justice, the development of people and all other social marginalized people.
