“El patriotismo de la mujer” (1876) by Mercedes Cabello: Resignifications, Displacement, and Tension in the Articulation of a Feminist Genealogy

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.26.9

Keywords:

Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, “El patriotismo de la mujer”, gender essay, feminism, feminist genealogy

Abstract

This paper studies the essay «El patriotismo de la mujer» by Mercedes Cabello (1876) from a feminist perspective. In this text, Cabello presents a monolithic reading of the Battle of Callao, whose outcome was controversial. By this means, she also brings to the surface women’s participation in national history, something that constituted a submerged knowledge at the time. Hence, I delve onto the strategies through which Cabello re-signifies the “generic” category of “women” in order to articulate a feminist genealogy marked by the constant displacement within generic and nominal forms of the feminine (Valcárcel, 1994). I believe a detailed reading of these displacements is key to pondering the particularities, implications, and silences of the feminist discourse-object-reality of the time.

Author Biography

Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino es doctora en Estudios Romances por la Universidad de Miami (2017). Es profesora de la Escuela de Literatura en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y su área de especialidad es la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XIX y el periodo de entre siglos (1880-1918), desde una perspectiva que combina los estudios literarios, de género y de cultura visual. Es autora del libro Juan Germán Roscio. La subversión de la palabra (UCAB, 2008), del libro Éticas y estéticas de la profanación: el entre siglos más allá del modernismo (Cuarto Propio, en imprenta); además de ser coeditora del libro Arte, artista y campo artístico: concepciones, inscripciones y poéticas en el contexto latinoamericano (Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2020). Ha sido profesora invitada en la Universidad de Navarra y es autora de diversos artículos en publicaciones arbitradas y pertenece al grupo de investigación LITARTMO, de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

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Published

2022-02-01

How to Cite

Morales-Pino, L. A. (2022). “El patriotismo de la mujer” (1876) by Mercedes Cabello: Resignifications, Displacement, and Tension in the Articulation of a Feminist Genealogy. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (26), 135–153. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.26.9

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No. 26 (2022): Exile as a Site for Enunciation: Contemporary Intercultural and Transcultural Dialogues

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Miscellaneous

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