Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 44 | 115 | 2021
Research Article | The Reception of Las madres no by Katixa Agirre

The Reception of Las madres no by Katixa Agirre

Maternity and Narration in the Basque and Castilian Literary Systems

Abstract
This article analyses the positive reception of Katixa Agirre’s novel Las madres no. In order to contextualise these considerations, we will briefly present the writer’s career up to this point, and we will offer a brief narrative analysis of the novel. Finally, we will trace some possible explanations for the favourable reception of the book Las madres no among Spanish-speaking readers and critics: the originality of the text and the chosen subgenre (the crime thriller); the recent boom of publications on the topic of motherhood in Spanish and Latin-American recent literatures; and also the role played by the publishing house, Tránsito Libros, an independent and fairly young company with a strong presence in social networks which has attracted some enthusiastic followers within the Spanish readership. The combination of these different elements may explain why Las madres no has received more attention than other works by the same author, and by other Basque writers who have been translated into Spanish.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Feb. 5, 2021 | Accepted: April 22, 2021 | Published June 29, 2021 | Language: es

Keywords Basque Literature • Feminismo • Maternity • Reception • Narrative • Literatura vasca • | Recepción • Feminism • Maternidad • Narratología

Copyright © 2021 Santiago Pérez Isasi, Aiora Sampedro. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/16/011


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