This Story is Different: representations of woman em Elena Garro's La Semana de Colores
Elena Garro - La Semana de Colores - female identities – gender
This thesis project proposes to investigate the identity process construction of the characters of the short story collection La Semana de Colores (1964), by Mexican writer Elena Garro, as well as the ways through which the historical context of the 20th century exerts influence on it. To accomplish such an aim, it is intended to explore the feminist criticism, studies on the relation between Literature and History, as wells as some theories on the concept of identity. Provided that identity is perspassed by body, the characters in the thirteen stories focused will be analyzed under the tipology of bodies proposed by scholar Elódia Xavier (2007), together with the teoretical contributions of Peter Burke (1992), Stuart Hall (2003), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Teresa de Lauretis (2019), Toril Moi (1985), Joan Scott (2019), Donald Shaw (2014), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Virginia Woolf (1985), and Lúcia Zolin (2009).