The influence of the novel pink or colloquially known as romantic novel in society will be the theme chosen by the Cartagena Ana Ballabriga for his talk at Cartagena Piensa, program of the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, which will take place on Tuesday 18 February, at 8:00 p.m., in the Josefina Soria library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
Under the title of The current romantic novel, a means for female empowerment?
there will be a historical tour of the genre, the milestones, the clichés, the reason for its reading and even the role of the reader and the male author.
Ana Ballabriga is a four-handed filmmaker and writer with David Zaplana, trainer and psychologist.
He collaborates with La Verdad de Murcia making literary criticism and writing in the blog A cara de libro.
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As a writer, her most important works are After the Sun of Cartagena "and No true Scots (winning work of the Amazon Literary Prize in 2016). This Tuesday she stars in the Meetings of feminist thought of the Cartagena Piensa cycle, of the Department of Culture of the City Council Cartagena The event will be presented by Gele Artés, a member of the Cartagena Piensa promoter group.
In his talk he will talk about how the romantic novel has always been considered a minor or even crossed out paraliterature genre and how these preconceived ideas prevent seeing in its total dimension.
According to Ballabriga "it is true that it served to convey a certain ideology at specific historical moments, it has also enabled, in more recent times, for women to speak and express their concerns."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena