In order to reach the end of the wait: the hispano-american women essay writers from the first half of the 20th century and the problems of their reception

Abstract

In this article, I propose a reflection about a corpus of texts, if not unknown, misread or misunderstood by the critical and literary history: the essay by Hispano-American female writers and its reasons. At the first part, I try to answer why the female writers’ production has not been read from the identity problem that rules the continental canon. At the second part, I analyze some examples from a corpus of texts (Teresa de la Parra, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela Mistral) in the dialogical and contextual point of view concerning all kind of sentences in order to show their artistic signification and historical value. Valle y Caviedes, it’s objective is to show that in the text parody (of petrarchism) and satire (of the society of Lima) are joined to create the heteroglosic quality of the poem, and the baroque play of masks, in other words, the play between what it is said, and what it is wanted to be understood. Finally, following the ideas of Daniel Torres (1993), it is pretended to indicate the points in which this poem commune with the poetic of the Indian Baroque.