ABSTRACT

Within the last quarter of the twentieth century and now well into the twenty-first, the historical novel has been a prolific and popular form in Spain for commentary on the dictatorship, the Transition and contemporary politics, as well as a vehicle to reimagine and revise the more distant past. This article examines La estirpe de la mariposa – poet Magdalena Lasala’s first foray into narrative fiction, published in 1999 – as a product of this period of collective rethinking. Seeking to shift the historiographical focus from men to women in medieval Iberian history, La estirpe traces the lineage of five mostly fictional women that are imagined to have shaped and influenced the great men in caliphal Córdoba. This article analyzes the mechanisms the novel employs to refocus national historical narratives on women and their historical contribution to Spanish society, identifying several specific historiographical strategies employed by canonical Spanish National Catholic histories that not only are resuscitated in La estirpe de la mariposa but are at the heart of the portrayal of the female protagonists.

摘要

在二十世纪后半叶，直到现在进入二十一世纪，这本历史小说一直是西班牙多产且流行的形式，用于评论独裁，过渡和当代政治，以及重新构想和修改的工具更遥远的过去。本文考察了诗人马格达莱纳·拉萨拉（Magdalena Lasala）首次涉足叙事小说，该出版物于1999年出版，这是这一时期集体反思的产物。寻求将中世纪伊比利亚历史上的史学重点从男性转移到女性，La estirpe追溯了五位主要是虚构的女性的血统，据认为这些女性塑造并影响了卡利帕尔·科尔多瓦的伟人。本文分析了小说将国家历史叙事重新聚焦于女性及其对西班牙社会的历史贡献的机制，确定了规范的西班牙民族天主教历史采用的几种特定的史学策略，这些策略不仅在《东方报》中得到了复兴，而且还在女性主角刻画的心。