Beauty of Suffering (Poster) : Representations of Violence Against Women in Spain (17th-21st Century)
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2015-04-09
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We will focus on the aesthetics of suffering, particularly on
representations of gendered violence in Spain from the seventeenth
century to contemporary times. We will analyze narrative forms—
theatre, novels and scripts—and visual depictions—paintings and
film—of violence, or in other words, we will explore the “beautiful”
or grotesque spectacle of female suffering. This research has, of
course, a common denominator: the control of women and the
violence against them. In spite of the progress of time and the
political efforts to protect victims of domestic violence in Spain, fiftythree
women were killed by their husbands in 2014.
Dr Sonia Pérez-Villanueva is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the
Department of Humanities at Lesley University. She is the author
of The Life of Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun: An Early
Modern Autobiography (2014).
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Posters, Violence against women--Spain