Pastor Pastor, Brígida Manuela2025-01-242025-01-242015-06-04Brígida M. Pastor, “El ´arte de vivir´: Liberación textual masculina en El artista barquero o lo cuatro cinco de Junio”. En: Brígida M. Pastor (Ed.). Gender, Writing, Empowerment. Monográfico especial: Romance Studies, 33, 1 (2015), 80-94. ISSN: 0263-9904. https://doi.org/10.1179/0263990415Z.000000000880263-9904; e-ISSN:1745-8153https://doi.org/10.1179/0263990415Z.00000000088https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25499Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo. La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Romance Studies, 33, 1 (2015), 80-94. ISSN: 0263-9904, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1179/0263990415Z.00000000088 This is the accepted manuscript of the article. The recorded version of this article, first published in Romance Studies, 33, 1 (2015), 80-94. ISSN: 0263-9904, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1179/0263990415Z.00000000088This study aims to demonstrate that Gómez de Avellaneda´s last novel El artista barque o los cuatro de junio (1861) contains a transgressive subtext, even more sophisticated than those found in her previous novels. El artista barquero marks a final stage in the evolution of Gómez de Avellaneda´s prose works, displaying a new assurance of style and an ironic tone which combine to create a powerful and balanced gender-inflected expression of the feminine and the masculine. Familiar themes permeate this last novel, in which both male and female characters show the same will to resist the usual frustrations presented by the dominant power structures. The story is clearly feminist in motivation, and in its use of alternative mechanisms of writing. These strategies aimed at the textual liberation of the masculine are both invigorating and effective, exploring an alternative masculine identity through the male protagonist Huberto. This study demonstrates that male characterization has direct implications for feminism because it allows the narrative to condemn the negative effects of cultural norms on the lives of men and women. In turn, the strategies used destabilize the existing traditions, to show that the perpetuation of the model imposed on men (and women) by (patriarchal) society is not pre-ordained and inevitable.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 FilologíaartículoTextual liberationmasculine identitynarrative strategiesGómez de AvellanedaEl artista barquero o lo cuatro cinco de junio