(Des)órdenes familiares en Mujeres de ojos grandes y Mal de amores de Ángeles Mastretta
abstract
This text attempts to demonstrate how the Mexican author Ángeles Mastretta creates a gynocentric cosmos from which she proposes a new family ‘order’ in which the ‘value’ of women is equivalent to that of men. What in the novel Mujeres de ojos grandes (1990) could be understood as a ‘literary exercise’ of constructing ‘dis-ordered’ feminine figures will be ‘amplified’ in the novel Mal de amores (1996). The latter, in turn, can be considered as the deconstruction of the traditional novel of the Mexican revolution and as an attempt to update the nineteenth-century costumbrista novel.
Keywords: Historical novel • Novel of the Mexican Revolution • Deconstruction • Costumbrista novel