CUESTIÓN DE MUJERES DE AYER Y DE HOY

Abstract

Within the writings of I, where the documentary record and the fictional imaginary come together, we analyze the interdiscursive reading of Martha Mercader in Juanamanuela mucha mujer, the literary work of Juana Manuela Gorriti. Novel written within the strategies of contemporary literary theory, in which not only we perceive the affirming discourse of the status of women in the nineteenth century. But also the modest attitude of a character that speaks to us through the fictional I of the real Juana Manuela who lived in the nineteenth century, and in that century she dared to think as a woman. In the works of Gorriti, the history of Argentina was mixing with the narrative weekly serial alchemy to make the documentary a stage where warlords, unused travels and «eclectic» meals composed the imaginary file of several generations of Americans. When Martha Mercader rediscovers the saltenian writer in the light call of a dictionary, her battling strength drives her to shape the fictional I of Juanamanuela, within the parameters of the historical novel.