The Contestation of Patriarchy in Luis Martín-Santos' Work, 1st ed. 2020

This book proposes that Spanish author Luis Martín-Santos? work focuses on the effects of patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity on men, to actively contribute to freeing both men and women from the yoke of patriarchy. It aims for a new resonance of Luis Martín-Santos. It analyzes the influence of Heidegger, Freud and Sartre in Martín-Santos? psychiatric essays and his fictional works: the novel Tiempo de silencio (Time of Silence), the collection of short stories Apólogos, and the posthumous fragment Tiempo de destrucción (Time of Destruction). It demonstrates that alongside the political critique of Franco?s dictatorship, Martín-Santos? creative writings are an attempt to destroy the prevalent masculine myths of Western patriarchy, and a proposal to create new myths for the future.

Miquel Bota is Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento,

USA. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, USA, in Iberian and Latin

American Cultures, and holds an M.A. from Queen’s University, Canada. His

publications include articles on misunderstood, misrepresented or forgotten

contemporary literatures and cultures.

Argues for a reading of Martín-Santos’ creative works as an attempt to destroy the prevalent masculine myths of Western patriarchy, and as a proposal to create the new ones for the future

Places Martín-Santos’ writings beyond their initial post-Spanish Civil War political contexts as most scholarly work has focused by addressing the lasting impact of his writings to the contemporary Spanish moment

One of the first academic works to offer extended analysis of Tiempo de destrucción (1975)