Tag: Convento de las Micaelas

«Sorvegliare e punire» i corpi nel convento delle Micaelas

di Paola Porpora

The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed analysis of the chapters related to the Micaelas convent in Benito Pérez Galdós’ novel, Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887). By drowing on Michel Foucault's concepts from his essay Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (1975), the article aims to explain how the tools, techniques, and management of bodies introduced in the convent exemplify a disciplinary and panoptic system.

Parole chiave: Michel Foucault, Panoptic strategy, Fortunata y Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdós, Convento de las Micaelas