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Non fiction

A palabra das fillas de Eva

By Teresa Moure

About this book

This is a text that tries to free theworld, that tries to unmask the social forces such as the school with its models of correct spelling, that condition us. It is a counter-dissertation that calls attention to liberal thought movements, such as feminism, many times used just as tropes.

Teresa Moure challenges us to forget the formulae of academic discourse in order to build a polymorphous narrative that presents ideas and tells stories in between.

Using this literary game, she can tell how a delivery takes place, or how Creation took place from the point of view of the feminine. This is a radical text, a set of critical arguments on the taming that language does to our brains, where social forces that shape us can be unmasked. This is a proposal to renew language, to act on old structures and build a new world.

Book fragment

One of the most recurrent debates of recent years (at least of recent years) on contemporary literature has to do with the existence or lack thereof, of “women's literature”. Maybe in many forums this discussion is as sterile as many other questions asked in times of crises: the superficial attitude of asking for the sake of asking without expecting even any answer. In this case, the question has little to do with gender. “But, does gender exist? Is there a gender role for women in a post-modern society?”, the interviewer seems to be mockingly thinking as he states the question that is as nihilist as that other one; “Oh, is there really any class struggle after the iron curtain?”. The question about women's literature has to be presented in a wider and more essential way.