Date of Award
2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Monika Siebert
Abstract
his thesis explores depictions of female agency in post-colonial Latin American literature. I highlight three primary texts: Gabriel García Márquez's (1927-2014) 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude, a canonical magical realist novel; Isabel Allende's (1942-present) 1982 The House of Spirits, her debut novel and a multi-generational story similar to Márquez's, and Isabel Allende's 2022 Violeta, a historical novel offering an autodiegetic narrative of a woman's 100 years of life in an unnamed South American country, to analyze how female characters evolve in response to changing sociopolitical landscapes and literary movements in Latin America. My central focus is Allende's most recent novel. Violeta serves as a reconstruction of female empowerment that celebrates South American women's overlooked virtues amidst a conservative and patriarchal society.
Recommended Citation
Llacza Morazzani, Nicole Darian, "Departure from Magical Realism: Female Agency in Latin American Post-Boom Literature" (2024). Honors Theses. 1754.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1754