ROMANTIC DISCOURSE AND FEMININE SUBJECTIVITY IN GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA’S “LA DAMA DE AMBOTO” (THE DAME OF MT. AMBOTO)

Abstract

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s short story, “La dama de Amboto” (The Dame of Mt. Amboto), is classified under the genre of Romantic legends. The authoress develops a fictive narrative in which the theme, characters and motives inscribe themselves perfectly in the discourse of canonical Romanticism. However, the reading of this text in the light of the theories of feminist criticism exposes to us a discourse in which develop and take shape a whole network of subject matter and narrative strategies that subvert the norms of Romantic canon and center the text on the subjectivity of the woman writer. The aim of this essay is to analyze these strategies and demonstrate that Avellaneda plays a main role in the formation and diffusion, into the Hispanic countries, of the feminine tradition that began to speak, in a decisive way, in 19th Century. 

Keywords

• ROMANTIC
• DISCOURSE
• FEMININE

ROMANTIC DISCOURSE AND FEMININE SUBJECTIVITY IN GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA’S “LA DAMA DE AMBOTO” (THE DAME OF MT. AMBOTO)

Abstract

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’nın “La dama de Amboto” (Amboto Dağının Kadını) başlıklı kısa öyküsü Romantik efsane türüne girer. Yazarın konu, karakter, ve kişilerin davranış nedenleri yönünden Romantik yazın geleneği söylemine tümüyle uyan bir anlatı kurgusu geliştirdiği görülür. Ancak, öyküyü feminist eleştiri kuramları ışığında okuduğumuzda, içinde Romantizm geleneği normlarına aykırı düşen bir içerik ve anlatı yöntemleri örgüsünün biçimlenip geliştiği, ve metni kadın yazarın öznelliğine odaklayan bir söylem saptarız. Bu makalenin amacı sözü edilen yöntemlerin incelenmesi ve 19.yy’da kararlı bir biçimde sesini yükseltmiş olan kadın yazını geleneğinin oluşumunda ve özellikle Hispanik ülkelerdeki yayılış sürecinde Avellaneda’nın ne denli önemli bir rolü bulunduğunu göstermektir.

Keywords

• ROMANTIC
• DISCOURSE
• Gertrudis

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