The Narration and Its Purpose in Two Testimonial Novels about Female Mobbing and Sexual Harassment in 21st Century Spain
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i26.15929Keywords:
exemplariness, inner-history, narrativity, testimonial novel.Abstract
The narrativity of testimonial novels, apart from counting on a partial involvement of the author-narrator and a high element of subjectivity, acquires two fundamental levels of representation: one focused on the story of the narrator and the other on the story of the main character. In addition to analyzing the narrative discourse of the testimonial novels Hay algo que no es como me dicen by Juan José Millás and No, mi general by Irene Lozano, this study aims to explain the literary text from extratextual elements, interpreting it as a social product. This means that the very theme of female mobbing and sexual harassment in the cited novels, along with the discursive intention of homodiegetic and, on occasions, autodiegetic narrators, turn a particular inner-history into an exemplary and denunciatory discourse.
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