The creation of female rural identity in María Sanchez´´´´´s ´ literary production

Abstract

The rise of ecofeminism and intersectional feminism has led to the emergence of literary works that highlight the role of women in rural areas and the recognition of female authors who make this issue visible. This paper attempts to analyze the construction of rural femininity throughout the literary production of the Cordovan author María Sánchez. For this purpose, three recurrent figures in her work are established as the focus of the research: daughter, mother, and grandmother, thus covering three generations of women. The proposal seeks to open avenues of knowledge and research for future works that try to dismantle stigmas imposed on rural women or to approach the new realities that cross them, especially if a comparison with works prior to the dawn of the 21st century is intended. The results obtained from this analysis, carried out from a multidisciplinary point of view that combines narratology, sociology and gender studies, will allow, besides incurring in a metaliterary reflection on the incipient rural literature, to establish a global vision of the concepts of identity and femininity in the contemporary rural environment.