The Woman Who Is Not Merely a Metaphor of the Nation. A Reading of Rosalía de Castro’s Widows of the Living Authors Helena González Fernández Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: gender, nation, Rosalía de Castro, widow of the living, Penelope, Ophelia Abstract This article offers a reading of Rosalía de Castro’s widows of the living as complex metaphors of the nation which depart from stereotyped national narrations of the 19th century. Opposing readings which have confined widows to the stereotype of the suffering nation due to emigration, following a reading of the complete book the widow of the living shows herself a feminine representation that is unforeseen either by discourses of the nation or of vindication in the 19th century. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-10-08 Issue No. 15 (2009): Mujeres y naciones Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
