Autorías y redes literarias en la prensa argentina (1870-1910)
In this book, Escritoras de entresiglos: un mapa trasatlántico, Literature specialist María Vicens addresses a topic of increasing importance for a proper understanding of our cultural past: the material and symbolic context within which a legitimate space was articulated for the Public deed of women in Argentina in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike the growing literature on this subject that has focused almost exclusively on national cases, this study proposes a new look at the transnational networks built by women writers themselves, and that linked geographic spaces of literary production as dissimilar to each other as Peru, Spain, and Argentina - this country, which became the fundamental link between the first two.
In this way, next to analyzes referring not only to writers who have long been consecrated by the literary tradition, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Clorinda Matto de Turner, or Emilia Pardo Bazán, but also to a wide group of less well-known writers, such as Raymunda Torres y Quiroga, the reader will find a detailed reconstruction of the world of the female press in Argentina between the fall of Rosas and the Great War, accompanied by extensive references to the Peruvian and Spanish contexts from which the writers with an international vocation who interacted with their Argentine counterparts then.
An original approach, rich in discoveries, to the worlds of feminine intimacy will also be discovered in these pages at their points of connection with the public sphere in which, not without facing arduous obstacles, these women sought to project themselves as writers. The cartography of this transatlantic map will be appreciated from now on, as never before, in all its complex and fine detail.
