Abstract
Writings by women produced in Chile as presented by authoresses belonging to the so-called generation of 1950, is filled with disease-related topics. The present paper explores the hypothesis that such images of pathology might fit the model of hysteria, in spite of a diversity of previous diagnoses, bringing femininity and disease to concur. In Aguirre's Cuaderno de una muchacha muda (Diary of a mute girl), Gertner's La mujer de sal (The woman of salt), and En blanco y negro (In white and black) by Serrana, writing proposes an interplay between inflections and inversions based on the image of hysteria resulting from a masculine view that sustains patriarchal power.
| Translated title of the contribution | Nymphomaniac, blind and mute: Disease and writing in the literature of Margarita Aguirre, Maria Elena Gertner, and Elisa Serrana |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 57-72 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Taller de Letras |
| Issue number | 54 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |