Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Nov 2020)
Chronicle and guerrilla’s testimony from a gender perspective in 38 estrellas. La mayor fuga de una cárcel de mujeres de la historia by Josefina Licitra
Abstract
In the broad scene of current Narrative Journalism, it’s a fact the emergence of female voices that appeal to testimony and to a confessional and personalist tone subsidiary of the trend of female journalists who participated in the mid-20th century of the New North American Journalism and also, from the other side of the ocean, from European journalistic experiences (Angulo Egea). Inherited from nineteenth-century biographies, memoirs, diaries and travel literature, that “personalist tone” was specified, according to Angulo Egea, “en un yo femenino, reivindicativo y crítico que se nutría también en parte de las posturas feministas imperantes a principios del siglo XX en los Estados Unidos” (163). The chronicle on the escape from the prison of the Tupamaras political prisoners in 1971, built by Josefina Licitra in 38 estrellas (2018), can be questioned in the light of this trend. As the author herself notes, the story of 38 estrellas not only tries to interpret a historical moment of Latin American politics, but also the place that women have in society. With a view to this postulate, this proposal aims to examine Licitra's chronicle, taking into account the status of gender as a questioner of the established reality and its power to disarm the hegemonic narratives of the armed guerrillas.
