Book contents
- A History of Argentine Literature
- A History of Argentine Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Dates
- Part II Critical Inroads
- Chapter 11 Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 12 Criollismo: Gauchos in Literature and Film
- Chapter 13 Race and Nation
- Chapter 14 Science in Argentine Literature
- Chapter 15 Essay and Territory: The Geography of National Identity
- Chapter 16 Music as Sonic Literature
- Chapter 17 The Jewish Presence in Argentine Literature
- Chapter 18 Emancipation: Twentieth-Century Female Writers, Journalists, and Activists
- Chapter 19 Forsaking Tradition: Dislocating the Sovereignty of Argentine Literature
- Chapter 20 Mujeres raras: Patriarchal Nightmares, Dissident Imagination
- Part III Literary Names
- Index
- References
Chapter 18 - Emancipation: Twentieth-Century Female Writers, Journalists, and Activists
from Part II - Critical Inroads
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
- A History of Argentine Literature
- A History of Argentine Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Dates
- Part II Critical Inroads
- Chapter 11 Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 12 Criollismo: Gauchos in Literature and Film
- Chapter 13 Race and Nation
- Chapter 14 Science in Argentine Literature
- Chapter 15 Essay and Territory: The Geography of National Identity
- Chapter 16 Music as Sonic Literature
- Chapter 17 The Jewish Presence in Argentine Literature
- Chapter 18 Emancipation: Twentieth-Century Female Writers, Journalists, and Activists
- Chapter 19 Forsaking Tradition: Dislocating the Sovereignty of Argentine Literature
- Chapter 20 Mujeres raras: Patriarchal Nightmares, Dissident Imagination
- Part III Literary Names
- Index
- References
Summary
In the mid-twentieth century a flow of books written by women writers was published. These works reformulated the emancipatory imaginaries of the political and artistic avant-gardes of the 1920s with original explorations of gender and affective relationships. In these books can be seen the emergence of a new sensibility along with a new poetics that nourishes the demands of the market and the expectations of a wider and more diversified audience prone to reading new experiences, innovative aesthetics, and novel affects. This chapter heeds the articulation of the sensitive and the political in different writers. Salvadora Medina Onrubia, Norah Lange, and Sara Gallardo are the writers of different decades who through their work, the literary-discursive figures they created, and their biographical stories displayed passionate and conflictive interactions with their time. They pursued emancipation specially through language. Literary texts, public speech, and print columns help them to mobilize more than just a political idea or a literary project, by activating perceptions, emotions, sensibilities, and public imaginations. This chapter will analyze the host of feelings that emerged in this process, mainly women’s genuine interest to get close to other women.
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- A History of Argentine Literature , pp. 272 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024