Literary Critic and Feminist Critic. Perspectives From the South

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the links between literary criticism and feminist criticism in Latin American literary studies. In particular, the work asks about the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions that gravitate in a limited corpus of critical texts that assume feminist perspectives to review the policies of the canon and the dominant evaluation criteria in the literary field. In general terms, the notion of “cartography” is methodologically assumed as a critical operation that allows connecting and jointly interrogating temporal and spatial coordinates in relation to political and affective itineraries and forms of mean experience. This makes it possible to identify areas of contact and points of divergence within the texts and also contributes to the recovery of theoretical and political genealogies dispersed in the tradition of both literary criticism and feminist studies.