Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Constelaciones familiares en la narrativa iberoamericana moderna
Chapter | (Des)órdenes familiares en Mujeres de ojos grandes y Mal de amores de Ángeles Mastretta
(Des)órdenes familiares en Mujeres de ojos grandes y Mal de amores de Ángeles Mastretta
Abstract
This text attempts to demonstrate how the Mexican author Ángeles Mastretta creates a gynocentric cosmos from which she proposes a new family ‘order’ in which the ‘value’ of women is equivalent to that of men. What in the novel Mujeres de ojos grandes (1990) could be understood as a ‘literary exercise’ of constructing ‘dis-ordered’ feminine figures will be ‘amplified’ in the novel Mal de amores (1996). The latter, in turn, can be considered as the deconstruction of the traditional novel of the Mexican revolution and as an attempt to update the nineteenth-century costumbrista novel.
Submitted: Sept. 1, 2023 | Accepted: March 19, 2024 | Published June 20, 2024 | Language: es
Keywords Costumbrista novel • Historical novel • Novel of the Mexican Revolution • Deconstruction
Copyright © 2024 René Ceballos. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-833-0/003
