"Hortus conclusus": tradición y reescritura en la poesía de posguerra de Carmen Conde

Abstract

Te literary work of Carmen Conde (Cartagena, 1907-Madrid,1996) written during the post-war period carried out a profound dialogue aboutthe topos of locus amoenus by means of one of the spaces to which it is frequentlyattributed, the garden or hortus conclusus , and through one of its main elements,the flower. In poems that appear in Ansia de la gracia (1945) and Iluminada tierra (1951), the garden and the floral imaginary serve to suggest models of femaleidentity that transgress both the passive image of women portrayed by male au-thors and the national identity imposed on women by the Francoist regime. Myarticle develops a theoretical framework from the perspective of feminist literarycriticism in order to study this rewriting and analyzes texts by Conde that arerepresentative of this rewriting.