ABSTRACT
An implicit Spanish history of sexuality has become an almost unexceptional topic as a result of the surge of women authors—Consuelo Garcia, Almudena Grandes, and Ana Rossetti—who in the 1980s and early 1990s explored sexual experiences by writing in the so-called erotic genre. In order to understand the volatility brought to the Spanish literary market by a woman author such as Lucia Etxebarria, one must first contextualize her place within the social and demographic changes of 1990s Spain and within the growth of new publishing markets. Lucia Etxebarria's seemingly endless talk about the issues and agents at play in the production of literature, as well as her unending defense of a feminist paradigm, speak to the importance of self-articulation and self-determination. It is through the two transformative strategies that women can control their position in the symbolic order and challenge the limits imposed on the accumulation of symbolic capital by a still predominantly male-controlled literary field.
