“De entrecasa”: Gender, Space, and Affects in the Works of Silvina and Victoria Ocampo

Abstract

Through the intersection between archive, fiction, and domestic spaces, this article approaches the relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Silvina Ocampo, their works, and their day-today environment. According to feminist theories, houses, and family relationships, together with the forms of obedience, love, and conflict they imply, offer an opportunity to study the construction of a system of individual, sexual, and generational identities that will influence Ocampo’s works as well as their ways of intervening in culture, interrupting and deviating traditions and standards, voices, and writings.