The conference ‘Las violencias hacia las mujeres a través de la literatura’ (Violence against women through literature) will be held on Friday the 29th of November at the reference library centre, managed by the Directorate General of Culture.
The ‘Can Sales’ Public Library of Palma is hosting a new conference in the second edition of the Writers’ Library, a series of meetings and debates between readers and writers that encourages reflection on the craft of writing and the creative process.
The conference ‘Violence against women through literature’, given by Emma Zafón, is scheduled for Friday 29 November. The writer has been invited on the occasion of the 25th November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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Emma Zafón (Lucena, 1987) is a journalist and writer from Valencia. She has worked as a journalist in various media in the Valencian Community, Aragon, Andorra and Catalonia. Her latest work is Casada i callada (Empúries, 2023), a critique of gender dynamics in the rural context. In the novel, she portrays a generation of women born between the 1950s and 1960s, trapped in marriages and a sexist society. Emma Zafón has also participated in the collective work Matria o barbarie: treinta voces del feminismo catalán (Angle editorial, 2024) and has launched the podcast ¡Que viva España! (2024).
In the lecture, Zafón will take a literary tour of how female authors (and some authors) have depicted the different forms of violence during the 19th and especially the 20th centuries. Through works such as La campana de cristal, La casa del padre, Fuego and Memorial Drive and authors such as Sylvia Plath, Karmele Jaio and Natasha Trethewey, the author aims to show the diversity of violence represented and also the degree of awareness on the part of the women characters who suffered it.
The conference ‘Las violencias hacia las mujeres a través de la literatura’ (Violence against women through literature) will be held on Friday the 29th of November, at 7 pm, in the Comic Library of the ‘Can Sales’ Public Library of Palma.