Between the domestic and the fantastic: the witches in the spanish narrative of moroccan theme

Authors

  • Yasmina Romero Morales Universidad de La Laguna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302248

Keywords:

Witches, spanish narrative, women writers, gender studies, Morocco

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the representational strategies around the character of the witch that it has been found in the Spanish narrative of Moroccan theme. The following pages will review their imagined models of conduct, the repeated topics with which they are describes and the values assigned to them. Mainly, it will stop in its most common profiles: the healer, the fortune-teller and matchmaker woman. The primary sources used correspond to the set of novels and fiction stories written by Spanish women and whose central theme was Morocco during the last 20th century.

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Author Biography

Yasmina Romero Morales, Universidad de La Laguna

Yasmina Romero Morales es Doctora en Estudios Filológicos (Universidad de La Laguna, 2016), Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Estudios Árabes e Islámicos (Universidad de La Laguna, 2008) y, además, posee dos másteres: uno en Estudios Feministas, Violencia de género y Políticas de Igualdad (Universidad de La Laguna, 2009) y otro en Literatura Comparada y Crítica Cultural (Universidad de Valencia, 2017). 

Published

2018-07-09

How to Cite

Romero Morales, Y. (2018). Between the domestic and the fantastic: the witches in the spanish narrative of moroccan theme. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (30), 329–337. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302248

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Papers
Received 2017-11-03
Accepted 2018-04-20
Published 2018-07-09