This article analyses the travel narratives of Maipina de la Barra (1878), Eduarda Mansilla (1882) and Clorinda M atto de Turner (1902), considering the concept of escape as a problematic Gordian knot which leaves evident gender marks and inflections in the writing. It proposes that the subject of the wound, provoked in De la Barra by impoverishment and neglect; in Matto by the violence of work denied, destroyed property, and the censored voice; and in Mansilla by the compulsory choice between family and vocation, is developed in these narratives through diverse strategies which include its over-investment, historization and silencing.
Keywords:
travel narratives, gender violence, Nineteenth century, memory and emotion
Denegri, F. (2017). Cutting the knot: The travel literature of Maipina de la Barra, Clorinda Matto de Turner and Eduarda Mansilla. Revista Chilena De Literatura, 96(2), 29–54. Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/47577
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