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- Title
Súplicas y peticiones desde el margen: Revisión de tres testimonios coloniales.
- Authors
Silva, Yamile
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze three texts through the thorough reading of unpublished letters, all written by women, currently located at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville and sent from the Rio de la Plata during the XVI and XVII centuries. As a first step, I intend to demonstrate how the female authors used the writing of such documents as an empowering practice; secondly, I maintain that these letters provide a spacefor the emergence of the authors' identity. In other words, I understand and ground the conclusions of this work on the fact that space culturally shapes gender, but that gender acts in the production of such spaces as well. The participation of female authors by means of these letters merges them with that spatiality in a process both of production and reproduction, since, as a conscience-building act to express their discontent with the colonial system.
- Publication
La Manzana de la discordia, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0123-0778
- Publication type
Article