Thinking of someone unthinkable: a dialogue between Amor y gloria: el romance de Manuela Sáenz y el Libertador Simón Bolívar (1952), by María Jesús de Alvarado, and Manuela Sáenz, la divina loca (195?), by Olga Briceño
This article analyzes the dialogue established by Latin American intellectuals with official history through certain fictions of the archive published in the fifties of the 20th Century. In this regard, it is important to note that following the acquisition of civil rights by Latin American women in...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/921 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/921 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Subjetividad femenina reconstrucción histórica María Jesús Alvarado Olga Briceño Manuela Sáenz escritoras latinoamericanas novela histórica Female Subjectivity historical reconstruction Latin American writers historical novel |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the dialogue established by Latin American intellectuals with official history through certain fictions of the archive published in the fifties of the 20th Century. In this regard, it is important to note that following the acquisition of civil rights by Latin American women in the decades of the thirties and forties –when they conquered the right to vote, they entered the universities massively and they rose as potential representatives of the public interest– the intellectuals of the continent demanded the ascription to some historical genealogy which would provide them with identity coherence and depth. On many occasions, they had to fall back upon literary discourse to negotiate their current existence with the historical past and expand the boundaries of the continental foundation with the visibility of women’s voices and subjectivities. In this context the two books that make up the corpus are published: Manuela Sáenz: La divina loca (The Divine Crazy One) (195?) by the Venezuelan Olga Briceño, and Amor y Gloria (Love and Glory): The Romance of Manuela Sáenz and Simón Bolívar (1952), by the Peruvian María Jesús Alvarado. These readings will allow for reflection on the process of historicizing of the otherness demanded by the new citizens of the continent, to determine their scope and the subjectivity resulting from this confrontation. |
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