This Story is Different: representations of woman em Elena Garro's La Semana de Colores
Literature and Woman; Literature and History; Elena Garro; La semana de colores; Hispanic-American literature.
This thesis aims to investigate the process of identity construction of the characters of the short stories compilation La semana de colores (1964), written by Mexican writer Elena Garro, and in which way(s) the historical context of 20th century Mexico works in the process. Contributions from feminist criticism, studies on the relationships between literature and history will be used, as well as theoretical contributions on the concept of identity. As identity is permeated by the body, the characters from the thirteen short stories will also be analyzed using the body typology listed by Elódia Xavier (2007). We will use the theoretical contributions of Linda Hutcheon (1991), José D’Assunção Barros (2004), and Glória Da Cunha (2004) for reflections on literature and history, Stuart Hall (2003), Teresa de Lauretis (2019), Toril Moi (1985), Joan Scott (2019), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Virginia Woolf (1985), and Lúcia Zolin (2009) in studies on gender and identity, in addition to Ángel Rama (1987) and Tzvetan Todorov (1975) for considerations about the unusual in literature.