ANIMAIS QUE ENTRAN NA CASA E ANIMAIS QUE ENTRAN NA VIDA. UNHA ACHEGA Á OBRA DE CONCHA CASTROVIEJO DENDE A ECOCRÍTICA E OS ESTUDOS ANIMAIS
Animals that Come into the Home and Animals that Come into the Life: The Work of Concha Castroviejo from the Perspective of Ecocriticism and Animal Studies

Author(s): Ana Acuña Trabazo
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Concha Castroviejo; animal studies; ecocriticism; exile; return
Summary/Abstract: Even though he had called Concha Castroviejo (Santiago de Compostela, 1910 – Madrid, 1995) the most important writer of the last century hailing from Compostela, Borobó himself was aware that few remember her. She has been the object of study as a female novelist of the post-war period, and her novels are considered testimonials of the historical moment in which she lived (Civil War, exile and return) because they reflect the inequalities that women suffered at all levels. Despite being little known, Concha Castroviejo was a revolutionary woman in her time, capable of overcoming familial and social barriers to acquire “a room of her own” and of introducing ground-breaking themes in her works (divorce, death penalty, women’s rights, co-education, etc.). Her writing, spanning multiple genres (novel, short story, literary essay, journalistic article, literary criticism, etc.), can be approached from different perspectives, especially as a consequence of the Civil War and the author’s Mexican exile. Nevertheless, in our paper, we use ecocriticism and animal studies as a starting point to study the presence of nature and non-human animals in her oeuvre (or rather, in her home and in her life, as she herself distinguished). Indeed, non-human animals do not appear in her work as literary ornaments but as subjects that allow the writer to become aware of her sentience and to reflect on humanimal relations.

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