Women silencied by history. The vision of Rosa Montero and Cristina Fernández Cubas

Abstract

The present study intends to prove a relevant change performed by Rosa Montero and Cristina Fernández Cubas in the Spanish literary tradition. Thorought their narrative trajectories, they built a different approach over a subject that became the object of research in Gender Studies at the end of the last century: raising awareness on illustrious women who have influenced different sectors of knowledge throughout history and whose importance was undervalued by the traditional canon until the 1980s and 1990s.Based on the results of the comparative analysis carried out, we can conclude that both authors discard the traditional canon to deal with the life stories and the personality of these women. Thus, Montero and Fernández Cubas ‘revolutionize’ the literary tradition. They make use of the biography, the novel or the essay, through their own vision and style and sometimes employ innovative and wider difussion sistems of comunications such as television programmes.