The hesitation of the motherland: the underside of the War of Independence in Nery Russo’s La mujer del caudillo (1952)

  • Mariana Libertad Suárez Universidad Simón Bolívar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2013-1725

Keywords:

Identity, historical novel, female subject, Nery Russo, Venezuelan literature

Abstract

This article examines Nery Russo’s La mujer del caudillo (1952) in order to explore how this novel portrays the woman as a historical subject and especially how the scientific discipline called “History” and its notion of “truth” are treated in this text. In this regard, the following issues are highlighted: (1) the mechanisms that allow the author to present historiography as the partitioning of a significant exchange network formulated to regulate identities, and (2) the strategies by which Russo gives an account of herself in the Venezuelan cultural field in the early fifties, when the domestic role of Venezuelan women seemed mandatory. 

Keywords: Identity; historical novel; female subject; Nery Russo; Venezuelan literature

 

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Author Biography

Mariana Libertad Suárez, Universidad Simón Bolívar

Diplomada en estudios postdoctorales, por la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (2005), Doctora en Filología Hispánica (2002) y Doctora en Ciencias de la Información (2012) por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Profesora Titular del Departamento de Literatura la Universidad Simón Bolívar (Valle de Sartenejas, Venezuela). 

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Published

2013-02-26

How to Cite

Suárez, M. L. (2013). The hesitation of the motherland: the underside of the War of Independence in Nery Russo’s La mujer del caudillo (1952). Anclajes , 17(2), 65–87. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2013-1725

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2013): julio-diciembre

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