Feminismo, historia y memoria en La hora violeta de Montserrat Roig

MÓNICA SZURMUK

Journal of Hispanic Research

Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College

Lugar: London; Año: 1995 vol. 4 p. 183 - 196

0967-1811

x This article emphasizes the multiplicity of discourses which structure Catalan writer Montserrat Roig’s fiction. Focusing on L´hora violeta, I show how discourses of gender, sexuality, nationalism, and social change interact to create a complex text in which the limitations of the Master narratives of Eurocommunism and Catalan nationalism are presented and feminine spaces are offered as Utopian alternatives from which to Challenger the shortcomings of the political alternatives presented in post-Franco Spain. In L´hora violeta, Roig debates the difficulties of writing about history, the strategies used to encode and textualize the unspoken, and the problematic relationship between literature as a genre of fantasy, and history as a genre of truth. Overtly presented as a sequel to Ramona, Adéu and El temps de les cireres, L´hora violeta defies the premise of Roig’s early novels that there is a “true history” waiting to be told. Instead, L´hora violeta rescues certain moments that the female protagonists savour as ephimerous but promising spaces of freedom.