Elena Soriano: a Writer Fighting Against Franco’s Censorship

Abstract

During the Franco regime, women writers faced double adversity: censorship and the oppression of a patriarchal system. Despite the restrictions, women writers such as Elena Soriano defied these constraints and produced literary works that stand out in the Spanish post-war scene. Their novels deal with subjects considered taboo and criticise the patriarchal structure and the marginalisation of women, which meant that their novels had to face the censors' scissors. The objective of this article is to examine the incidence of editorial censorship in the literary universe of the writer and, specifically, in the trilogy Mujer y hombre.