La “política cultural de las emociones” en La Tribuna de Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán created in Amparo, the main character in La Tribuna, one of the first republican leaders represented in nineteenth-century Spanish literature. In the character three different roles converge in conflict with one another: gender, social and political roles. This conflict can be better understood when analyzing the novel as the story of the formation and rise of a revolutionary leader from the representation of emotions and their role in the novel. The paper studies the character as “being emotional,” based on the theoretical framework offered by Sarah Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotions. For this purpose, each one of the facets of Amparo will be taken into account: as a woman, as a worker, as a speaker, and as a mother. Its application will consider three levels of analysis: emotions and their actions in the words of the characters and in the plot; the narrative voice generating emotions; and, ultimately, the author’s voice.