A witch moves around the world: from scandal to feminist pedagogy, La brecha by Mercedes Valdivieso

Authors

  • Rubí Carreño Bolívar Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

La brecha by Mercedes Valdivieso was read in the 1960s as a “scandal” and then, in the 1980s, as “the first feminist novel in Latin America” (Guerra-Cunningham 45). Thus, as if it has always been a founding moment of the narrative of women. How can we read La brecha today? How does it dialogue with the history of women narrative in Chile? In what way does it collect or not topics on the current feminist agenda? Which are its literary and political values? These are the questions that guide the writing of this article.

Keywords:

Feminism literary Criticism, Affect Theory, Mercedes Valdivieso