LA FRONTERA CIVILIZACIÓN/BARBARIE EN LA NOVELA FINISTERRE, DE MARÍA ROSA LOJO

Abstract

The Argentinian authoressMaría Rosa Lojo (1954) develops in her historical novels the spaces of geographical and ideological frontier, stressing the dichotomy civilization/barbarity, main socio-cultural frontier of the country. In her book Finisterre (2005), the protagonist goes in this frontier, the desert, and arid place that hides the Argentinian —the coping of social groups which fight by survival and search in the land their national identity. In this sense, the authoress proposes a new vision to the historical past by means of the voice, the writing and actions of her feminine characters who live together in spaces of frontiers, seeking constantly their identity through a world dominated by men. The writer redeems a traditional theme in the literature of her country and becomes it in artistic material, drawing a new concept of writing in the same time that requests the hybrid histories according the term of Magdalena Perkowska (2008). So, the novelist handles the duality civilization/barbarity to propitiate a discussion of the same by means of a critical vision in which increases the question of the Argentinian cultural subject.