Marginalidad y prostitución. Escritura abolicionista en Carlota O’Neill (1905-2000)
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2022.28.5Keywords:
Carlota O'Neill, abolitionism, movement of republican playwrights, modern women, memoirsAbstract
Carlota O’Neill de Lamo (1905-2000) was a versatile woman, like most modern women: writer, journalist, playwright, businesswoman, television and radio producer, activist... a professional career that is still unknown today, due to her imprisonment and exile. Many of her ideological positions are transmitted in her production. She was a pioneer of proletarian theater in Spain, and the theme chosen for her first play was the situation of women workers. In all her memoirs—which are not limited only to Trapped in Spain (1964)— she shows special interest in marginality and the slums. From her first play, Al rojo, in 1933, through her memoirs and other unpublished works, prostitution is one of the essential elements. Consequently, we have searched for clues in her work to answer the following question: Was Carlota O’Neill an abolitionist?
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