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Today we commemorate the physical departure of Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda, which took place in 1873. A writer of great intellect and determination, she laid the foundations for the anti-slavery novel, promoted experimentation within Romanticism, and questioned the canons and prejudices of the time, which allowed her to set a precedent in 19th-century Spanish-American literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her works include the novels Sab<\/strong> (1841), Dos mujeres<\/strong> (1842), and Guatimoz\u00edn, \u00faltimo emperador de M\u00e9xico<\/strong> (1846). Her poetry reflects modernist and romantic experiments, and her work for the theater includes the dramas Sa\u00fal<\/strong> (1849) and Baltasar<\/strong> (1858) and the comedy La hija de las flores<\/strong> (1852).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In El discurso de Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda: identidad femenina y otredad<\/strong> (2002), the Colombian specialist Br\u00edgida Pastor explains the poet’s merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab(…) she was the most outstanding Cuban-Spanish writer of the 19th century and was a very outstanding example, both for her unconventional life and for the expression of her liberal ideas in her literary work. Not only did she rebel against the canons established by society through her personal experiences, but she also filled her writings with attitudes and feelings that reflected her non-conformism in the face of a repressive and conventional society.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the introduction to this text, the Cuban essayist and literary critic Nara Ara\u00fajo points out the fundamental characteristics of Tula’s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abA grandiose poet, even close to classicism, (…) she dared to make a career in a man’s terrain (…) At a time when marginality was a matter of literary interest and Romanticism was exploring the universe of the excluded and subjugated. Avellaneda fought hypocrisy with anger and humor, creating characters yearning for liberation in stories about bandits and slaves, kept and unhappily married women, and artists\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, 150 years after her death, we remember the work of a writer who used Cuba as a reference point for projecting her work. As Rosario Rexach expressed in Estudios sobre Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda: La reina mora del Camag\u00fcey<\/strong> (1995): \u00ab(…) she cannot be regarded – without sinning against the truth – as a militant Cuban in the political sense. Nor has she ever intented to be one. But to deny her condition as a Cuban by feeling and will is to go beyond what her life and work allow (…)\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo: https:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A writer of great intellect and determination, she laid the foundations for the anti-slavery novel, promoted experimentation within Romanticism, and questioned the canons and prejudices of the time, which allowed her to set a precedent in 19th-century Spanish-American literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,111,110],"ppma_author":[14],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-writer","tag-gertrudis-gomez-de-avellaneda"],"authors":[{"term_id":14,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"lazaro-hernandez-rey","display_name":"L\u00e1zaro Hern\u00e1ndez Rey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}