Mujeres a la vista: género y scriptura autorial en Un ojo de cristal, de Miren Agur Meabe

Abstract

The recent rise of authorip studies, led by specialists such as Jerome Meizoz, Ruth Amossy or Dominique Mainguenau, allows to explore the place of the author in the Literary field along with his different positioning strategies. However, research on the intersection between Authorship Studies and Gender Studies, inaugurated and developed in the Hispanic Studies by experts such as Meri Torras, Aina Perez Fontdevila or Eleonora Croquer Pedron, have not yet achieved the notoriety that they deserve to attend to the specific characteristics manifested by women authorship. To the extent that female writers have historically been disallowed from occupying a recognized authorial position, they have needed to resort to multiple strategies of self-legitimation. This paper aims to consider these relationships between gender and authorship in order to expose a legitimation mechanism observed in recent Hispanic literature. First of all, the authorial inscription is formulated as a new category of analysis and it is offered a case study focused in Un ojo de cristal, by the Basque writer Miren Agur Meabe, to think about the diagnosis of this theoretical proposal. In addition, links between the body and the female authorship are examined from notions such as “authorial corpography”, “corporeal authority” and “sensocorpography” to conclude that the inscription of authorship and the textualization of the extraordinary body walk together in the direction of the self-legitimation of a dissident authorship