Postmodern Feminism in Spanish Literature: A Translation of Soler-Espiauba's "Mujer con paisaje de lluvia" into English as "Woman With Flooded Landscape"

This thesis translates Soler-Espiauba’s award-winning novel," Mujer con paisaje de lluvia" into the English language, as "Woman With Flooded Landscape", a short Spanish novel that confronts an age-old battle for liberation in the setting of a postmodern world. Although this feminist narrative seeks to displace traditional values and roles, there is nothing strictly contemporary about this all too familiar dynamic between two people of the opposite sex. The author, Dolores Soler-Espiauba, masterfully crafts an account of intrigue and suspense, creating shape and depth through the use of intertextuality and defamiliarization. The novel expresses a woman’s struggle for final autonomy and emancipation from a destructive erotic relationship while seeking to find possible new solutions in the context of a postmodern world. In addition to the translation, the thesis includes a literary analysis, as well as an essay that describes my translation experience.