ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on four writers belonging to the Generación del 27 (Concha Méndez, Ernestina de Champourcin, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Rosa Chacel) who have been critically eclipsed by male members of this groundbreaking literary group. In a context where Spanish women were eager to see changes in their status, le tumulte noir had a profound effect on these authors, leading them to emancipatory practices. While these practices tend to be related to the traditional image of the flappers as young, white, British and US middle-class women who rebelled against gender conventions during the Jazz Age, Cobo Piñero argues that African American artists such as Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Ma Rainey, but especially Josephine Baker, played a crucial role in the cultural construction of the flappers. Inspired by these black artists, female authors of the Generación del 27 not only transformed traditional fashion codes, but also claimed their place in both the public and intellectual spheres, and incorporated jazz into their literature to capture the ideas of female emancipation, sexual freedom, and modernity.
