Auto-ocultación e impostura: más allá de la doble invisibilidad de la traductora. El caso de María Lejárraga (o de su pseudónimo, "Gregorio Martínez Sierra")

Abstract

Gender Studies and contemporary Literary History have recently begun to promote the (re)discovery of female writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Spanish Silver Age, with the aim of bearing witness to their cultural contributions to the present day, which have often been silenced and forgotten. The recovery of female writers and artists of that period is not only a way out of "anonymity" for these women —a process that is undoubtedly a work of absolute justice—, but it also entails a reworking of the canon of the Spanish Silver Age, questioning assumptions and interpretations consolidated in our critical tradition, as well as recovering a large amount of literary/artistic production and identifying the patriarchal nature of our cultural and artistic elites at the dawn of modernity. One of the most striking cases of this group of "silenced" women is María Lejárraga, an essential and also a very active literary writer of the Hispanic Modernism. Several circumstances —starting with her own decisions, since she adopted as her pseudonym the name of her husband— led her to become a true ghostly absence, despite her great relevance for the Hispanic literature of the first half of the twentieth century.