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Neophilologus (2007) 91:445457
DOI 10.1007/s11061-006-9018-8
Francisco Manzo-Robledo
Received: 29 September 2005 / Accepted: 30 January 2006 / Published online: 20 March 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Abstract In another essay I have written about the existence of a masculinity code that determines Pascual Duartes behavior in Camilo Jos Celas novel La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942). In this essay I propose the existence of an economy, the economy of the social act-space in charge of the strategies of management, regulation and delimitation of each ones acts. More precisely, it is the patriarchal economy that might as well include any other denition in the purely economic sense. This essay shows how the representation of women in the novel obeys the rules of that economy as a contrapart of the masculinist code. In the novel, the observed acts dene women, but it is the reproduction of the patriarchal system by men/women and the subjection of these last to a social act-space conferred by the before mentioned economy. Thus, the masculine identity denes, by parallelism, the one for women. Womens identity is not dened from their own perspective, in order for women to have an identity there is a requirement of two, and one, the rst one, must be for men. A matrix representation [MR], using a conglomerate of adjectives describing different women in the novel is given.
Keywords Act-space Masculinist code Matrix representation
En el ensayo El acto-espacio social con su cdigo de comportamiento en La familia de Pascual Duarte, he tratado sobre la existencia de un cdigo de masculinidad que prescribe el comportamiento del personaje central -Pascual Duarte- en la novela de Camilo Jos Cela. En ese ensayo se hace mencin a otros reveladores escritos ya publicados con relacin al tema. En el presente trabajo, trato de aadir a lo antes expuesto. Aqu se investiga la contraparte en la tensin propuesta dentro de la narracin de Pascual: el lugar reservado a la mujer, su representacin, as como la elaboracin de una matriz de representacin de lo femenino.
Para enmarcar el tema, se vuelve a utilizar el aspecto del acto-espacio, el espacio de actuar de cada cual. En su conjunto, los acto-espacios de los miembros de una
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Department of Foreign Languages, Washington State...