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2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Silvia RocaMartinez

This article traces Gioconda Belli’s trajectory as a writer, feminist, and political activist. Belli, who is known as one of the organic intellectuals of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution, has consistently used her platform as one of the most renowned contemporary Latin American writers to provide a voice that transcends national borders to the Nicaraguan cause since the early 1970s. Through the analysis of some of her most notable works, some of her contributions in the national and international press, as well as social media publications, we examine the way her many roles have informed each other over the years and accomplished a two-fold goal: on the one hand, she has documented and theorized on the recent history of Nicaragua, in addition to keeping those in power in check; on the other hand, she has become one of the foremothers of Nicaraguan feminism. As this article shows, not only has she crafted—both in writing and action— a roadmap for younger generations of women, but she has also documented and influenced the evolution of feminism in Nicaragua.


Author(s):  
Joelma De Araújo Silva Resende ◽  
Raimunda Maria Dos Santos ◽  
Sebastião Alves Texeira Lopes
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O objetivo dessa pesquisa é investigar a participação da mulher no movimento revolucionário na Nicarágua, a partir do livro de memórias O país sob minha pele, de Gioconda Belli, escritora nicaraguense que participou do movimento sandinista, que derrubou a ditadura de Somoza.  Para isso, foi feita uma análise da relação entre mulher e nação, dando-se ênfase à participação feminina na luta contra a ditadura. Para tanto, cita-se Zinani (2010), que aborda os escritos femininos sobre ditadura, Mattoso (2010), que retrata a identidade nacional, e Walby (2000), que analisa a relação entre mulher e nação. Percebe-se que a mulher tenta conquistar um espaço na vida social, lutando pelo que considera mais justo para seu país, sendo assim, agente de transformação social. Percebe-se também que, apesar de não reconhecida pela historiografia oficial, a mulher participa do projeto de construção nacional na Nicarágua, como demonstrado por Gioconda Belli.


Author(s):  
Maravillas Moreno Amor ◽  
José Miguel Rojo Martínez

El presente artículo se propone analizar la presencia de representaciones literarias alternativas a los cánones clásicos del patriarcado y, concretamente, busca textos donde se construya un orden matriarcal como forma subversiva de ejercicio del poder. El plano interpretativo de la mujer como protagonista/participante del relato literario es el que centra los análisis realizados, extrayendo las connotaciones arquetípicas de los personajes que articulan la historia y sus propias relaciones como evidencia de unas realidades que transmiten al lector conocimientos implícitos sobre la existencia social. Aunque la literatura genera una ficción pactada, su lectura crítica no debe realizarse al margen de las categorías sociológicas que nos permiten desentrañar al mundo. Tras revisar algunos planteamientos teóricos sobre las ideas de matriarcado, patriarcado y crítica feminista, se concretan tres obras que serían ejemplos destacados de cómo las herramientas creativas pueden servir al empoderamiento femenino y a la transformación del imaginario colectivo: Lisístrata, la comedia de Aristófanes; Cien años de soledad, la novela por excelencia de Gabriel García Márquez y El país de las mujeres, de la nicaragüense Gioconda Belli, una de las escritoras feministas en lengua española más destacadas de los últimos tiempos. Las tres obras están íntimamente conectadas y representan, a su vez, una significación del hecho femenino cercana a las teorías del feminismo de la diferencia. Este último asunto nos permite invitar al lector a retomar uno de los debates clásicos del movimiento feminista contemporáneo: renunciar al género o exaltarlo, encontrando en él, más que una construcción social violenta y opresora, una oportunidad para cambiar el mundo desde una nueva escala de valores protagonizada por la maternidad y la política de los cuidados.


Author(s):  
Liliana Guadalupe Chávez Díaz

En este artículo se reflexiona sobre las memorias escritas por autoras latinoamericanas y la narrativa de viajes contemporánea. Se inscribe en el debate en torno a la memoria y la literatura del yo en la literatura latinoamericana publicada a partir del 2000, a través del análisis de testimonios de viaje de mujeres escritos en primera persona en el contexto de las guerrillas y revoluciones de los años sesenta. El objetivo es identificar los usos particulares del lenguaje que las autoras latinoamericanas desarrollaron para autorrepresentarse mientras viajaban en un territorio aún en desarrollo y que enfrentaba grandes cambios sociales. El estudio se centra en El país bajo mi piel(2001), de Gioconda Belli; La Habana en un espejo(2004), de Alma Guillermoprieto y Viajes: De la Amazonía a las Malvinas (2014), de Beatriz Sarlo. Se propone aportar al conocimiento de la narrativa de no ficción latinoamericana y de autoras poco atendidas por la crítica literaria mediante el estudio de la literatura de viaje como medio de expresión de la memoria individual y colectiva. El artículo ofrece una perspectiva femenina en torno a la relación entre ideología, política y viaje, al mismo tiempo que explora las representaciones de clase y género en la literatura contemporánea.


Author(s):  
Ana Patricia Rodríguez

Throughout the mid-20th and early 21st centuries, Central American writers, in and outside of the isthmus, have written in response to political and social violence and multiple forms of racial, economic, gendered, and other oppressions, while also seeking to produce alternative social imaginaries for the region and its peoples. Spanning the civil war and post-war periods and often writing from the space of prolonged and temporary diaspora as exiles, sojourners, and migrants, in their respective works, writers such as Claribel Alegría, Gioconda Belli, and Martivón Galindo have not only represented the most critical historical moments in the region but moreover transfigured the personal and collective social woundings of Central America into new signs and representations of the isthmus, often from other sites. Read together, their texts offer a gendered literary topography of war, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization and imagine other “geographies of identities” as suggested by Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg for post-conflict, diasporic societies. These writers’ work is testament to the transformative and transfigurative power of women’s writing in the Central American transisthmus.


Author(s):  
Francesca Valentini

Gioconda Belli is one of the most refined female voices of emancipation in twenty-century Latin American literature. Since her earliest works, this Nicaraguan writer carries out her own personal revolution starting with a rethinking of the female body, which takes on a symbolic and metaphorical meaning capable of representing the profound ideological change desired by Belli. According to the author, it is necessary to rethink the female role within Latin American societies so that women can acquire the status of subjects capable of freeing themselves from the markedly subordinated image that the patriarchal universe has reserved to them. This common thread guides the reader within the author’s production and it can be found also in her latest novel, Las fiebres de la memorias (2018), in which, exceptionally, a male protagonist appears, who will be able to redefine himself only through a ‘feminization’, an enhancement of that dimension of caring for others which is generally thought of as strictly belonging to a feminine universe.


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