LA IN-VALIDEZ DEL CUERPO DE LA LETRADA: LA METÁFORA PATOLÓGICA

Abstract

The present paper analyses Dolores (1869), a short novel by Colombian writer Soledad Acosta de Samper, who undertook intense and extensive intellectual activity during her prolonged lifetime. This paper discusses the implicit relationship between the woman as an intellectual subject and her ill body as the allegory of a type of subjectivity uncomfortable for the community of learned men, through which such dissonance is retransformed into a metaphor of the pathological body (in this case, a leprous body that disintegrates in a monstrous way) as a synonym of the learned woman. In this way the writing of such a body can also infect others through a style of writing which transgresses the cannon; thus the epistolary genre, intimate, infecting the generic integrity of the republic of literature. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]