Submissive and Perverse: Myths about Women in "Las impuras" (1919), a novel by Miguel de Carrión
Abstract
In this paper I examine the mythological substratum correlated the woman in the novel Las impuras (1919), by the Cuban writer Miguel de Carrión. The myth of feminine frailty, the virginity and the femme fatale conforms the intertextual womb in this novel as part of his aesthetic message, that reflected the problematics of the Cuban woman, at the turn of the century XX. From a mythcritical perspective with a gender approach, I determine the symbolic aspects that characterize the antithetic conformation of the womanly image in the cultural thought in this period.
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