Figures of woman: the example of María and Amalia

Abstract

This article wants to propose a new approach at two of most representative literary figures of Romanticism in Latin-America: in one side, the Colombian María, turned into a type of feminine representation marked by the tracks of corporal disease; in the other, the Argentinean Amalia, constructed as an stereotype, but vindicated like image of the modern and cosmopolitan subjectivity that Argentina desires since the Independence. In order to get there, one will use the terms of criticism as sabotage that professor Manuel Asensi raised in some recent works: first of all, because allows an opening of the critic position; secondly, because permits to uncover in these texts these strategies that tried to transform, from literature (in its examples), the social imaginary of the feminine individuality and subjectivity.