Cinco modelos de mujer en el teatro de Alejandro Casona

Los personajes femeninos ocupan un papel esencial en el teatro de Alejandro Casona (1903-1965), dramaturgo asturiano parcialmente vinculado a la Generación del 27. Ellas, sean o no las protagonistas, son las agentes responsables de provocar el conflicto dramático y, generalmente, las únicas capaces de solucionarlo. Este artículo explora el planteamiento, la construcción y la materialización de cinco modelos de mujer (mujer evasora, educadora, sufridora, amante y sustituta) en diez personajes femeninos de tantas otras obras. Se trata de un análisis del carácter del personaje, su evolución y una reflexión acerca de los motivos del uso de este arquetipo. El estudio también explora la vida y la producción artística de Casona, las transformaciones sociales, culturales y políticas que vivieron las mujeres del segundo tercio del siglo XX y los rasgos del teatro del momento.Female characters have an essential role in Alejandro Casona’s (1903- 1965) theatre, an Asturian playwright, usually linked to the Generation of ’27. Although they may not be the main characters of the play, they are in charge of provoking the dramatic conflict and they usually are the ones destined to solve it. This article explores the approach, the construction and materialization of five female archetypes (evader woman, teacher, suffering woman, lover and substitute woman) in ten female characters from ten plays by Casona. This project studies each character’s behaviour, her evolution and Casona’s purpose for the use of that archetype. The text also analyses the author’s life and artistic work, the social, cultural and political transformations involving women that took place in the second third of the XXth century and the features of that era’s theatre

Where extremes meet: Sport, nationalism and secessionism in Catalonia and Scotland

In this essay, we trace the symbolic conundrums of belonging, and of the reconciliation of identities, in the context of Catalan and Scottish sport and politics. Our discussion will commence with a necessarily concise consideration of past academic contentions regarding the national ‘psyches’ which have been argued to shape contemporary notions of identity and politics in Catalonia and Scotland, before turning our attention to the specific role of sport vis-à-vis these ‘psyches’ and the growing clamour for greater political autonomy for each of these stateless nations. Based on evidence drawn from the interaction between sport and politics in the two nations, we argue that secessionism is a liminal field of transformation as it includes what is seen as mutually exclusive sets of relationships (Catalans vs. Spaniards; Scottish vs. British, secessionists vs. unionists/centralists), which at the same time allows subjects to pass from one state to another and occupy them non-exclusively

Cinco modelos de mujer en el teatro de Alejandro Casona

Los personajes femeninos ocupan un papel esencial en el teatro de Alejandro Casona (1903-1965), dramaturgo asturiano parcialmente vinculado a la Generación del 27. Ellas, sean o no las protagonistas, son las agentes responsables de provocar el conflicto dramático y, generalmente, las únicas capaces de solucionarlo. Este artículo explora el planteamiento, la construcción y la materialización de cinco modelos de mujer (mujer evasora, educadora, sufridora, amante y sustituta) en diez personajes femeninos de tantas otras obras. Se trata de un análisis del carácter del personaje, su evolución y una reflexión acerca de los motivos del uso de este arquetipo. El estudio también explora la vida y la producción artística de Casona, las transformaciones sociales, culturales y políticas que vivieron las mujeres del segundo tercio del siglo XX y los rasgos del teatro del momento.Female characters have an essential role in Alejandro Casona’s (1903- 1965) theatre, an Asturian playwright, usually linked to the Generation of ’27. Although they may not be the main characters of the play, they are in charge of provoking the dramatic conflict and they usually are the ones destined to solve it. This article explores the approach, the construction and materialization of five female archetypes (evader woman, teacher, suffering woman, lover and substitute woman) in ten female characters from ten plays by Casona. This project studies each character’s behaviour, her evolution and Casona’s purpose for the use of that archetype. The text also analyses the author’s life and artistic work, the social, cultural and political transformations involving women that took place in the second third of the XXth century and the features of that era’s theatre

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