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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8833
dc.title	The Debunked Stereotypes: On “La densidad de las palabras” by Luisa Valenzuela
dc.contributor.author	Costanzo Sabrina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2022/118/gli-stereotipi-sfatati-su-la-densidad-de-las-palab/
dc.description.abstract	In “La densidad de las palabras”, as in all the stories that make up the section “Cuentos de Hades” – which is part of the collection entitled Simetrías –, Luisa Valenzuela builds her plot starting from tha t of a well-known fairy tale by Perrault. The Argentine novelist, while reproducing almost faithfully the facts of the French author’s text, proposes them from a different perspective, obtaining the effect of reversing their meaning and message, in order to highlight and overcome the strict gender stereotypes that the traditional story transmits.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 45 \| Issue 118 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2022-09-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-03-22
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2022/19/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Fairy tale
dc.subject	Fiaba
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Genere
dc.subject	Luisa Valenzuela
dc.subject	Narrativa femminile
dc.subject	Stereotipi
dc.subject	Stereotypes
dc.subject	Women’s fiction

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The Debunked Stereotypes: On “La densidad de las palabras” by Luisa Valenzuela

Sabrina Costanzo Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia

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abstract

In “La densidad de las palabras”, as in all the stories that make up the section “Cuentos de Hades” – which is part of the collection entitled Simetrías –, Luisa Valenzuela builds her plot starting from tha t of a well-known fairy tale by Perrault. The Argentine novelist, while reproducing almost faithfully the facts of the French author’s text, proposes them from a different perspective, obtaining the effect of reversing their meaning and message, in order to highlight and overcome the strict gender stereotypes that the traditional story transmits.

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Dec. 16, 2022

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Sept. 23, 2022

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March 22, 2022

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Keywords: Stereotypes • Genere • Fiaba • Luisa Valenzuela • Stereotipi • Narrativa femminile • Women’s fiction • Gender • Fairy tale

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