Política y género en la escritura bitextual de las escritoras uruguayas de entresiglos (1874-1906)

Abstract

My work focuses on the literary discourses of uruguayan writers of the XIX century, published in books and periodicals between 1879 and 1908 and have not yet been addressed by academic criticism, unless on circumstantial mentions. Stopping in an almost unknown corpus has its risks. Requires thinking about this plot that weaves daily in private scene, forming part of the politics and can participate in processes of social transformation (Schmukler , 1990), which leads us to transit through works that arise by request of the rise of the bourgeoisie (Masiello, 1997) and serve the gender representations, given the vital role they play in the cultural conformations of a nation. It involves circulating around verbal devices with which it is constructed and emerges female subjectivity and with it, explore particular ways of thinking and perhaps experience some reality in the context of disciplining of a historicist century by antonomasia. It is also highlighting the strategies that women use to write (and read) in an environment torn by civil discord and social injustice, observing the influence of political conflicts in their subject and also showing the "rich female literary subculture clearly defined" (Gilbert and Gubar, 1998 12) that worked in the regional context. Approaching this literature –paradigmatic example of the relationship between history and gender– located at the crossroads of pedagogical requirements, assigned practices, mutes and eminently patriotic speeches, is reading against the grain of its oscillations between the confessional tone of the great female lyric tradition and the elusion of patriarchal poetics. Interpret aspects of the evolution of these texts, in war or alliance with male culture, allows to assess, through a rigorous and inclusive analysis, other keys, other methods for interpreting the evolution of the uruguayan literature.