Textual and Personal Dialogues: Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo, Ana Roqué de Duprey and Puerto Rican Feminism at the Beginning of the 20th Century

  • Natalia Cisterna Universidad de Chile
  • Lucía Stecher Guzmán Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/2017-2133

Keywords:

Carmela Eulate, Ana Roqué, La muñeca, Luz y sombra, Puerto Rico, 19th century

Abstract

This article proposes that the novel Luz y sombra (1903) by Ana Roqué develops an intertextual dialogue with La muñeca (1895) by Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo. This dialogue recognizes both La muñeca’s artistic quality as well as its intent to transform the narrative in order to deliver a clearer moral message to its readers. While high levels of ambiguity and irony characterize Carmela Eulate’s novel—features which are responsible for a wide range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations—Ana Roque’s text develops a pedagogic discourse that avoids ambiguity. Her message emphasizes the importance of an education that allows women to choose a husband based on love and companionship instead of economic and social goals, so that marriage becomes the basis of a society capable of progressing.

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Author Biographies

Natalia Cisterna, Universidad de Chile

Académica del Departamento de Literatura y del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Chile. Doctora en Literatura Chilena y Latinoamericana. Entre sus publicaciones se destacan los dos volúmenes a la primera edición crítica a la Obra Narrativa de Marta Brunet (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado y Universidad de Chile, 2014 y 2017), su estudio Entre la calle y la ciudad. La representación de los espacios público y privado en novelas de narradoras latinoamericanas de la primera mitad del siglo XX (Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2016) y una serie de artículos sobre escritoras latinoamericanas de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Lucía Stecher Guzmán, Universidad de Chile

Doctora en Literatura, Académica del Departamento de Literatura y del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Chile. Sus líneas de investigación son: literatura caribeña, escritura de mujeres, literatura y migraciones. Entre sus últimas publicaciones se cuentan el libro Narrativas migrantes del Caribe: Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat y Jamaica Kincaid publicado el 2016 por Ediciones Corregidor de Buenos Aires y diversos artículos sobre escritoras caribeñas (Ana Roqué, Dulce María Loynaz, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, entre otras). 

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Published

2017-10-09

How to Cite

Cisterna, N., & Stecher Guzmán, L. (2017). Textual and Personal Dialogues: Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo, Ana Roqué de Duprey and Puerto Rican Feminism at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Anclajes , 21(3), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.19137/2017-2133

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2017): septiembre-diciembre

Section

Dossier

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