He said/She said: gendered historical discourses in Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon

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Main Author: Beatriz Urraca
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: The City University of New York 2005
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contents He said/She said: gendered historical discourses in Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon Beatriz Urraca Sociología Ferré Lagoon feminism Puerto Rico New Historical Novel Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon is a multithreadedversion of Puerto Rico’s twentieth-centuryhistory that hinges on the tension between the centraldiscourse of the female narrator and her husband’smarginal annotations and corrections. This techniquedeliberately calls into question who gets to write history,what gets included, and where the boundaries betweenfact and fiction lie. Through the theoretical frameworksof feminist historicism and the Latin American NewHistorical Novel, this article examines the uneasyrelationship between historical veracity, authority, andgender as it is played out in Ferré’s novel and the PuertoRican society it portrays. 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717212 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XVII
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publisher The City University of New York
spellingShingle He said/She said: gendered historical discourses in Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon
Beatriz Urraca
Sociología
Ferré
Lagoon
feminism
Puerto Rico
New Historical Novel
He said/She said: gendered historical discourses in Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon Beatriz Urraca Sociología Ferré Lagoon feminism Puerto Rico New Historical Novel Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon is a multithreadedversion of Puerto Rico’s twentieth-centuryhistory that hinges on the tension between the centraldiscourse of the female narrator and her husband’smarginal annotations and corrections. This techniquedeliberately calls into question who gets to write history,what gets included, and where the boundaries betweenfact and fiction lie. Through the theoretical frameworksof feminist historicism and the Latin American NewHistorical Novel, this article examines the uneasyrelationship between historical veracity, authority, andgender as it is played out in Ferré’s novel and the PuertoRican society it portrays. 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717212 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XVII
title He said/She said: gendered historical discourses in Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon
topic Sociología
Ferré
Lagoon
feminism
Puerto Rico
New Historical Novel
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717212