Resumen del Autor:
LaGreca,
Nancy,
'The Sublime Corpse in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s
Women’s Journal Album Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello (1860)'.
'This
article examines Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s choice to
include articles depicting the advanced decay of cadavers, which are simultaneously
horrible and awesome, in her women’s print culture, and theories
of the sublime provide a frame for the analyses. The stories under consideration
are “Historia de un suicidio”, by the Venezuelan Rafael María
Baralt, which depicts the corpse of a young woman who took her own life,
and “Sueño y dolor” by the Spanish poet Dolores Gómez
de Cádiz de Velasco, a first-person mourning in prose of the writer’s
dead infant. The graphic yet aesthetically rendered descriptions of decaying
flesh anticipate the new literary vocabulary of 1880s decadence in Latin
America. I propose that Avellaneda-as-editor employs the articles depicting
corpses to shock readers into identification with women’s suffering
in an unorthodox form of early feminist social critique.'
