Por una tradición propia: genealogías y legitimación en las escritoras transhispánicas de entresiglos

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Abstract:Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a series of non-fiction miscellaneous texts written by Latin American and Spanish women were published. Despite their diversity in content and genre, all of them shared a special interest in the figure of the female writer, shaping a corpus saturated with names and book titles that aimed to transcend geographical, ideological and aesthetic borders and demonstrate the existence of a wide panorama of transhispanic women authors. Furthermore, through theses texts, female writers developed different strategies to contact and legitimate each other as sisters in the literary field, creating in this process a female genealogy in which they reached back to claim their right to authorship. This paper focuses on the analysis of the main topics that constructed the figure of the transhispanic woman writer, as well as the literary map and the sociability networks that emerge from the studied corpus.