Cuadernos de Humanidades

Cover - Presentation - Index

Betina Campuzano (Ed.) — 2025-07-03

Presentation. Literary Criticism and Gender Studies in Latin America.

Federico Cabrera — 2025-07-03

Revisions and Interpellations of the category of gender:

Mariana Guerra Pérez — 2025-07-03

The article is based on two academic experiences related to research and the teaching of an extension seminar, conducted at the National University of San Juan during 2023 and 2024. These experiences allowed us to engage with the proposals of various thinkers such as Scott, de Lauretis, Lugones, and Flores. Thus, this article aims to recover the theoretical advancements that these experiences have enabled us to achieve, as we seek to identify, review, and contrast the concept of gender and its critiques in light of feminist studies and literary criticism. From the perspective of literary criticism and the contributions of the aforementioned authors, we aim to reflect on writing practices in the construction of dissident/lesbian/queer knowledge. We adopt a methodology that challenges the category of gender from a ruminative attitude, epistemic suspicion, and questioning as epistemic sabotage. The goal pursued in this text invites us to rethink, through reading and writing practices, the semiotic foundations of gender. In this sense, we approach literary criticism from a feminist perspective, as it allows us to identify the gender codes that are reconfigured and (dis)ordered through the use of language.

Reflecting on writing in academia:

Virginia Tatiana Abello — 2025-07-03

In the intersection of cultural criticism and gender studies, Sylvia Molloy (2002) proposes re-reading the Latin American cultural text by articulating both a reflection on gender and a re-flexion in the sense of detour. This re-flexion would allow us to perform striking (llamativas) readings, in the double sense of scandalous and questioning, able to crack established

interpretations. Based on this idea, I aim to inquire not into the readings, but into the writings we produce from feminist academic literary criticism. To this end, I analyze publications from an Argentine academic journal of gender studies, Zona Franca, published in the dossier “Feminist Traces: Writings, Images, and Archives” (2020). I trace striking discursive operations in the texts that indicate a shift in the way knowledge is written and argue that this is not a whim, but that the use of these striking forms of writing is grounded in the valuable contributions of feminist epistemologies to scientific practice. In the article, I detail how detours in academic writing correspond with the idea of situated knowledges or embodied knowledge, with the need to weave an intellectual feminist genealogy and make women’s authorship visible in academia, with the possibility of a nomadic thought that confronts dualistic and phallocentric visions, and with the critique of linguistic androcentrism.

The future of the past:

Martín Villagarcía — 2025-07-03

This article aims to show how gender studies are invested with the characteristics of an archive, often thrown into the future and at the wrong time of their moment of intervention in the public debate, only to find there a horizon of reception that blurs the limits of what contemporary means. To do this, first a search is carried out through different theories about the archive, with special emphasis on the works of Foucault and Derrida, and the subsequent “archival turn” of the social and human sciences and its “anarchivistic” drifts. Starting from this new configuration about “the law of what can be said,” in Foucault‘s words, archive theories are linked to gender studies and their ability to problematize historically unquestionable statements. To conclude, the “effect of contemporaneity”, proposed by Giorgio Agamben, produced by gender studies as archives is noted when finding a historical situation where they produce meaning.

The interior of the home as a political scene.

Carla María Indri — 2025-07-03

When we remember the times of the Colony and the independence struggles, do we think about the interventions and practices of women? Faced with the male protagonism in official stories, Argentine literature for childhood creates a small crack through which other memories sneak in. In these narratives, women who participate in these troubled times appear, whose homes are crossed by the conflicts of the moment, turning that private space into another political scenario. This article proposes a reading of the story Tenemos patria! (2020) by Ana María Shua and the story book Casas revueltas (2023) by Florencia Canale. After a brief review of the productions included within historical fiction, we analyze the particularities of the genre in the Argentine childrenˈs literary field based on the selected corpus. Literature aimed at childhood takes its materials from the past and constructs stories with figures displaced from the public sphere in order to spread another repertoire of experience around the historical events of the 19^thcentury.

Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro by Agustina Bazterrica.

Quimey Juliá — 2025-07-03

In this paper, we analyze the fantastic short stories “Las cajas de Unamuno” and “Roberto” from the book Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro (2020) by contemporary Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica. Our objective is to highlight the profound interconnection between the fantastic genre and the permutation of roles socioculturally assigned to female individuals in both stories. In particular, we argue that, in these narratives, there is a disruption of the traditional role granted to women, in which the heterocispatriarchal order is subverted. To examine the specificity of the fantastic in this mutation, we situate the stories within Latin American fantastic literature, as characterized by María Negroni (2015), while recovering her conception of this genre as a form of resistance to reason and common sense, opposing the status quo. In line with its destabilizing potential, we draw on (although with significant differences) certain theories about “feminine” or “feminist” fantastic literature. Additionally, we assert that the disruption of female subjects is evident through the articulation of two main axes: sexuality and violence. To address these themes, we rely especially on conceptualizations from feminist theory, such as the reflections of Gayle Rubin (1989 [1984]), Judith Butler (2007 [1990]) and Rita Segato (2003).

The illuminated zone:

Victoria Daona — 2025-07-03

With the reopening of cases for crimes against humanity in Argentina in 2003 and the effective action of justice, testimonial literature allows the configuration of a new agenda of issues. After the sentences, the authors of the genre do not have the urgency or the mandate to speak on behalf of the victims and their families, but rather they can organize a metaphorical story with the desire to illuminate an area of the past that had not been narrated until then (Nofal 2022). This is the case of Improlijas Memorias by Carmen Perilli (2021), who after hearing the life sentence of the torturers who disappeared her husband in 1977, in her testimony illuminates her encounter with literary research as the instance that allows her to construct for herself a position that is not that of the “victim’s woman,” but rather that of the “intellectual woman.” Coincidentally, it will be that illuminated area, which earns her the recognition of the National University of Tucumán as Professor Emeritus in 2024; and the recognition of literary criticism with a gender perspective that exhumes the names and genealogies of the women who make up the field of study (Gerbaudo 2016, 2023, 2024; Maradei y Vázquez 2024; Angilleta 2020).

Being Exiled Girls.

Eugenia Argañaraz — 2025-07-03

I am interested in addressing the modes of writing in which the daughters of exile produce and publish in a particular moment where memories manifest themselves in complex scenarios. I will analyse Florencia Ordóñez’s Exiliaditas (2019) and Lucila Penedo’s Los órdenes del amor (2022). When I refer to ‘modes’ I allude to ways in which literature circulates, giving an account of family, personal and intimate archives that become public. In the chosen works I emphasise how the past is revisited through mappings, letters, drawings and photographs produced by exiled childhoods, especially by daughters who had the need to order - in their narrative present - the experience of childhood exile. The ways of telling and narrating enable the territory of exile memory that involves a gender perspective in which the archives - which as daughters they generated - give rise to another great archive of childhoods in which exile was such a powerful presence that it became an unknown. Writing during childhoods as daughters and narrating with exile in absolute presence was the driving force that led to the forging of a future artistic production such as the one I present here. I observe the various modulations of childhoods in exile and also in the returns and non-returns as memories of a context resulting from state terrorism. The stories, the testimonies cross the barrier of the public and the private (Jelin, 2023) and allow us to engage the analysis that Drucaroff in Otros logos. Signs, discourses, politics (2015) carries out. At this point, literature and politics come together to talk about the exile experience in the midst of state terrorism and its consequences during the recovery of democracy. The methodological strategy I will use is to combine literary studies (Basile) with memory studies (Jelin) from a socio-critical perspective that punctuates contributions to the cultures that these daughters have developed from a gender perspective (Drucaroff, 2015).

Performance and Gender.

Melina Guadalupe Echevarría Peinado — 2025-07-03

This article seeks to share a research journey that integrates Performance Studies and Gender Studies, beginning with the research project titled “Acting, Intervention, Performance: Scenic Practices in Rejection of Forms of Violence Against Women in San Juan (2015-2018)”, funded by the National Theatre Institute (INT) in 2019. The journey starts with the description and analysis of scenic practices carried out in San Juan between 2015 and 2019 within the context of political demonstrations. Reviewing these artistic practices in public spaces involves considering how theater intervenes in these instances. In this regard, the development of this article includes the background that serves as the framework for the research in the province; a review of methodological and conceptual aspects; the analysis of the observed practices and their production context; and a proposal for systematizing the creation procedures, group formation, and interaction with the audience.

Gender in San Juan politics:

Hernán Videla — 2025-07-03

This research paper addresses, from a historical approach with a gender perspective, the recent process of debate and enactment of the Women’s Quota Law in local electoral and legislative lists along with the descriptively female parliamentary representation in the Province of San Juan, Argentina, between 1983 and 2011. Throughout its development, it was possible to describe the provincial political conditions of San Juan’s recent past as background to the time of its enactment. It was also possible to analyse the different electoral quota proposals presented at the time of their legislative treatment. In addition, we compared the results in the composition of different legislatures, before and after the enactment of the law, in order to observe its effects. A mixed methodological design was applied with specific collection, organisation and processing techniques. Qualitative documentary observation was used qualitatively, and quantitative analysis of the statistical data was used quantitatively. The main heuristic resources used came from local, bibliographic, newspaper and official documentary repositories.

El almirez Carmen Perilli. Corregidor. Ciudad autónoma de Buenos Aires. 2024. 128 pages

Ludmila Alcoba — 2025-07-03

Vivir entre extraños. Relatos de soledad y desarraigo Reina Roffé. Editorial Hugo Benjamín. Buenos Aires, 2024. 177 pages

Eugenia Argañaraz — 2025-07-03

What is Judaism? Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra. Editorial Senderos, 2022. 238 pages

Perla S. Rodríguez — 2025-07-03

Revista completa

Betina Campuzano (Ed.) — 2025-07-03