Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 43 | 113 | 2020
Research Article | Gioconda Belli: The Responsibility for Writing

Gioconda Belli: The Responsibility for Writing

Abstract
Gioconda Belli is one of the most refined female voices of emancipation in twenty-century Latin American literature. Since her earliest works, this Nicaraguan writer carries out her own personal revolution starting with a rethinking of the female body, which takes on a symbolic and metaphorical meaning capable of representing the profound ideological change desired by Belli. According to the author, it is necessary to rethink the female role within Latin American societies so that women can acquire the status of subjects capable of freeing themselves from the markedly subordinated image that the patriarchal universe has reserved to them. This common thread guides the reader within the author’s production and it can be found also in her latest novel, Las fiebres de la memorias (2018), in which, exceptionally, a male protagonist appears, who will be able to redefine himself only through a ‘feminization’, an enhancement of that dimension of caring for others which is generally thought of as strictly belonging to a feminine universe.


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Submitted: March 28, 2019 | Accepted: Jan. 15, 2020 | Published June 19, 2020 | Language: it

Keywords Latin America • Cuidadanía • America Latina • Nueva novela histórica • Female body • Woman • Corpo femminile • | Donna

Copyright © 2020 Francesca Valentini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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