El erotismo en la literatura escrita por mujeres durante el franquismo: la sexualidad femenina en la narrativa de Carmen Kurtz

Abstract

Carmen Kurtz (1911-1999) is remembered today as a writer of children’s and youth literature. Into oblivion has fallen her facet as a narrator of books for adults, developed between 1954 and 1975 and comprising a total of thirteen novels and two collections of stories. Her texts are populated by female characters who escape from the canons marked by the dictatorship. In them, we find women who reject marriage, adulteresses, prostitutes, etc. The objective of this communication is to observe how the author deals, in a particularly conflictive time, with the question of female sexuality. Kurtz does not shy away from the subject, which is present, in different degrees, in practically all of the fictions she wrote in this period of her work and continues through different visions from extraordinary courage for the moment. With this research, we delved into an author within the group of narrators who emerged in the 1950s and who received less academic attention. At the same time, communication is part of the line of research that, at present, we dedicate to the author.