The Erasure of an "I": Memorias de la rosa (2000), Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2021.27.4Keywords:
female authorship, Central American memoirs, gender and writingAbstract
In 1946, Salvadoran woman writer and artist Consuelo Suncín Sandoval (1901-1979) writes Memorias de la rosa, an autobiographic-memorial text posthumously published in 2000, on the centenary of the birth of his husband, French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944). A part of the critique, where the preface of the first Spanish edition of this work stands out, enthrones the «mythical» image of the renowned author, an operation that seals the textual proposal and overshadows the Salvadoran woman author. Such impairment highlights the correlation between the positioning of the works and the bodily stigma of the subjects who occupy the authorial purpose, which turns it into a invitation to revisit the text from the bodily-authorial configuration of the «I» to contribute to settle a historiographic debt towards the figure-work of this Central American woman writer. These are the coordinates in which this approach gravitates.
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