Abstract:
This article looks into the authorial figure of Colombian writer Marvel Moreno which is constructed around her inadequacy in the literary canon of the Colombian Caribbean and Latin America. This marginalization is rooted in the fact that she was a female writer in a male and masculinist dominated field. This position plays a double edge sword as it gives her own place in the field, but at the same time it excludes her from it to such an extent that she becomes invisible. First, we analyze the voices within her texts, which are related to her posture in the literary field. Then we focus on some critical texts about the author and her work to discern if her image corresponds to certain female figures of the writer’s imaginary such as: Judith Shakespeare, the ‘poète maudit’ or cursed poet, the little sister, and so on. Finally, we will see if the inclusion of a woman writer as Marvel Moreno in the Colombian literary field still is a problem nowadays.
Keywords:
Marvel Moreno; Feminism; Women’s Writing; Colombian Literature; Authorial Studies