Serán las madres las que digan: Basta.

Dichterisches, weibliches Selbstverständnis und dissidente Mutterschaft in der Lyrik Ángela Figuera Aymerichs

Abstract

Despite her contemporary integration in the literary networks of the poesía social, Ángela Figuera Aymerich only ascended to its canon due to research efforts for more gender fairness since the 1980s. With respect to her poetry, critics distinguish fundamentally between two phases which Figuera reflected metalyrically and poetologically. This article analyses these phases using both ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich’s distinction between motherhood as experience and as institution. For the first phase, it will be argued that Figuera affirms motherhood as institution to a large extent, but already stresses the physicalness of women who are seen as equal in the partnership with men. With the second phase which pertains to the poesía social and which is presented as poesía impura, Figuera focusses on motherhood as differentiating experience and biological potential. Instead of portraying women as wifes and as mothers, Figuera sketches a collective refusal of motherhood, thereby shaping a „maternidad disidente“ (Zabala 2003) and challenging francoist National Catholicism.