Woman and Citizenship: The Cases of Concha Zardoya and Juana Castro Authors Margaret Persin Rutgers University Keywords: poetry, citizenship, gender, performativity, Franco’s regime, immigration Abstract The poetry of Concha Zardoya and Juana Castro is interpreted in this article from the point of view of citizenship, understood as a performative act and framed by the space-time axis. It analyzes thus the ways in which these authors evoke the past inorder to exorcize the present. Zardoya presents a difficult conceptualization of the term “citizenship”. In her poetry she invokes landscapes which are chief in the history of Spain in order to integrate values of community and patriotism, which are far away from those imposed by the regime, and from which women can develop a new role as citizens. Of a more conscious feminism, Castro criticizes in her works the patriarchal system and the hierarchical structures as forms of power, making use of excerpts from the Odyssey to reflect about the present and to vindicate women, immigrants, and those who have been marginalized for an authentic citizenship. 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).
