Las sin tierra

Las sin tierra, breaking the myth of the Andalusian muse, offers an intimate analysis of the daily lives of farm workers in a specific sector, the production of red fruits in the province of Huelva. Her work is essential to understand not only what role Andalusia plays in the world system, but also how the trajectories of essential people for the support of life have gone unnoticed in the hegemonic history that is narrated about Andalusian women and women from other territories that inhabit and enrich Andalusia. As has happened with women's organizations in other sectors at different times, from which some episodes are rescued, what is known about them often passes for being a mere story loaded with myth or stories treated as anecdotal. That is why an ideal of the Andalusian woman prevails in the collective imagination, which, by naming it, causes a series of devices to be activated that have to do with an exotic and mythologized issue, far removed from the field of politics and the agency of the own women. A cultural construction that has been carried out from the great arts and that eclipses the voices of its protagonists has greatly contributed to this. Combining how the myth of the Andalusian muse has been created and investigating some struggles led by women that have developed and continue to develop in the territory, is presented as an urgency to load with meaning a feminized story full of clichés and absences, which needs to be revisited. For this, a dialogue with the work of Blas Infante is constantly resorted to, since it presents avant-garde notions that today are more than necessary strategies to advance towards critical thinking and a demystifying horizon.