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The City University of New York
2005
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- 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 Ferrés The House on the Lagoon is a multithreadedversion of Puerto Ricos twentieth-centuryhistory that hinges on the tension between the centraldiscourse of the female narrator and her husbandsmarginal 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 Ferrés 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