¿Operación salvamento? La recuperación de la historia de la participación de las mujeres en la cultura literaria

摘要

‘Salvage’ evokes complex dynamics of loss, recovery and value, in such contexts\udas waste management or shipwreck and maritime law. Similar dynamics, often\udtriggered by a collective or individual experience of a void or an absence, motivate\udand inform much research into the history of women’s writing. The present article\udexplores, from the point of view of literary studies, the effects of understanding\udresearch into the history of women’s writing as a salvage operation. This metaphor\udbestows on the material studied the ambiguous status of remains. While\udhindering the full integration of women’ s writing in more traditional accounts of\udthe literary past, the understanding of surviving material as remains can become\udthe starting point for constructing new, inclusive approaches to literary history.\udThis reframing of the problem is possible thanks to recent developments in the\udHumanities, with an increasing interest in models and theories that allow us\udto better understand complex and dynamic phenomena. In order to illustrate\udthe possibilities of this approach, the article draws on a brief analysis of nineteenth-century Spanish fashion magazines.