HBN. Along with the Christmas activities organized especially on the occasion of these festivities, the province of Huelva has other proposals that allow you to enjoy culture in places as recommended as the Zenobia Juan Ramón Jiménez de Moguer House Museum, a space in which the exhibition entitled ‘Juanramonianas. Juan Ramón and the Spanish writers’. It is a exhibition curated by journalist and historian Mari Paz Díaz, based on an original idea by the lover of literature with the name of a woman and the work of Juan Ramón Mónica Vergel, University Expert in Gender. A tandem that has allowed the development of an initiative that has attracted the attention of all its visitors since its opening on November 25.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by the Councilors for Equality and Culture of the City of Moguer, Pilar Rodríguez and Eva Rodríguez, respectively, who wanted to support this activity on such an important day for women as November 25, Day Against Gender Violence; the director of the Juan Jiménez de Moguer Chair, Rosa García, which highlighted the realization of this initiative that allows showing a real image of Juan Ramón; Soledad González Ródenas, Perejil de Plata for her work to disseminate the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez, which highlighted the importance of the authors appearing in this sample; and the Director of the Zenobia Foundation Juan Ramón Jiménez de Moguer, Antonio Ramírez Almanza, who supported this research and its dissemination from the first moment. For her part, Mari Paz Díaz, thanked everyone present for their support, without which it would have been impossible to carry out this project, also highlighting the work carried out for the implementation of this activity by Rocío Bejarano, documentary maker at the Centro de Estudios Juanramonianos.
In this exhibition takes a tour of the Spanish writers who, in one way or another, had the support of the Nobel Prize for Literature at a time when women’s literature was in the background. However, Juan Ramón always opted to disseminate these creations of some authors who have works of great quality, despite being practically unknown in many cases, without forgetting that they were an example throughout their lives of the struggle for equality rights in a society in which it was still very difficult to dedicate yourself to letters if you were a woman.
And it is that, as Mari Paz Díaz herself collects in the presentation brochure, “the poet from Moguere offered throughout his life a strong support to literature with a woman’s name, even promoting the creations of numerous authors, in many cases then unknown. He was an advance when it came to putting them in value, and with the aim of visualizing this facet of the author of Platero y yo, and having been related on occasions to an image that we verify is very far from reality, through this exhibition we make it known and give voice to those literary women who, in some way, were related to the Nobel Prize.
One look will allow us rediscover the work of more than almost thirty Spanish writers that have great relevance for the History of Literature, as appreciated by the Andalusian Universal, despite the fact that these creations have not been sufficiently disseminated in some cases. Authors who, on the other hand, had to face the adverse social and cultural conditions that surrounded them, but they managed to gain a foothold on a literary level. This situation occurred among Spanish writers, but also among many American writers, although, on this occasion, we focused on the firms of our country, without ruling out carrying out an upcoming edition with those creators from the other side of the Atlantic known by Juan Ramón. And is that this sample is a excerpt from a larger project that starts from the original idea of Mónica Vergel, developed in a later investigation by Mari Paz Díaz.
Through these panels and showcases we propose a journey through a good number of writers who, in many cases, were pioneers and paved paths until then unimaginable for women, as happened with Carmen de Burgos or Emilia Pardo Bazán in the field of journalism.
We will even be surprised by the connection of the writer with names belonging to a generation other than his own, since, in his maturity, he maintained contact, mostly with an epistolary nature when he found himself in exile, with the young women who stood out in Spanish letters. in those years, as it happens with Carmen Laforet, winner of the Nadal Prize in 1944 with Nada, or with Pilar Paz Pasamar from Cádiz when she was a student in her early 20s. In the same way, we will discover his meeting with the little sister of Federico García Lorca in Granada in 1924 or the complicity of the Nobel with such consecrated authors as Carmen Conde, Rosa Chacel or María Zambrano, without forgetting María Luisa Muñoz de Vargas from Huelva.
Juan Ramón not only supported all of them, but also spoke about their values publicly. In fact, as her great-niece Carmen Hernández-Pinzón recalls, “she spent her entire life encouraging and helping young poets. You just have to see the relationship he had with them, some were even living with the marriage. And it is that the meeting between both, sometimes, took place through Zenobia Camprubí, his eternal companion ”. An exhibition that remains open until after Reyes.
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Spanish women writers through the eyes of Juan Ramón, an exhibition at the Casa Museo Zenobia Juan Ramón Jiménez de Moguer – Huelva Good News