Isabel Allende and Marcela Serrano: Chilean voices in Latin American Literature

• Autor(a) principal: Zinani, Cecil Jeanine Albert
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/34966
• topic: Duas palavras. Nossa Senhora da Solidão. Reading and writing. Emancipation.; Dos palabras. Nuestra Señora de la Soledad; Lectura y escritura. Emancipación femenina.; Duas palavras. Nossa Senhora da Solidão. Leitura e escritura. Emancipação.

This article aims to examine gender elaborations, as categories of the female, in Isabel Allende’s short story “Two Words”, and in Marcela Serrano’s novel Our mother of Solitude. A review of the concepts from the feminist critics that are applied to texts was carried out, emphasizing the language as the main topic. It was found as pertinent to examine the specificity of the writing and the reading as strategies for the permanence of the history of a community, in the case of the short story, and as the key to solve an enigma, in the case of the novel. It is also important to point out the relevance of these activities, as they operate both on the identity construction process and on the emancipation of the female character.