The article has as its object to analyze the configuration of the literary trajectory of two Chilean modern writers, MarÃa Flora Yáñez and Marta Brunet, considering that their different insertions in the cultural field in that time are determined by their social origins, and gender norms. Both MarÃa Flora Yáñez and Marta Brunet are part of a generation of professional authors that understand their writing as a public activity, recognizing in this action its own characteristics, different from other speech practices, and as an activity that has to be perfected throughout time with permanent reading, writing and divulging tasks. For women, however, this professionalization was experimented with difficulties because of the persistence of discourses that limited women’s entering in the public and cultural spheres. The literate silence to which the female gender has been historically submitted gave place to the arousal of critical voices that red with mistrust or rejection the work of these modern female authors, which force them to define literary trajectories from different strategies that will allow them to be recognized in the cultural fields. These strategies gave place to a heterogeneous professional field, in which social class habitus and gender norms played a fundamental role by configuring their
particular relations with the cultural field, and ultimately, their trajectories.
Cisterna, N. (2014). La definición de las trayectorias literarias en dos escritoras chilenas modernas: MarÃa Flora Yáñez y Marta Brunet. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (86). Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/31497
