Figuración y desfiguración de los personajes femeninos en dos novelas sobre la independencia: Manuela y Relación de un veterano de independencia

Abstract

Abstract: This academic essay entitled Figuration and disfigurement of female characters in two novels about independence: Relation of an independence veteran and Manuela, arose from the author's need to be able to distinguish the different features with which female characters have been constructed in the works belonging to two writers Ecuadorians, Carlos Rodolfo Tobar and Luis Zúñiga. Both novels have as their central theme the Independence of Ecuador, a time where the main role that women are assigned is have been good wives and mothers, but due to the various investigations that have been carried out carried out around this topic, it is currently known that women were also involved and contributed to the independence cause, assuming specific roles such as being informants, spies and warriors. The objective of the essay is to be able to analyze and buy what is said by history with what is created by literature, that is, observing if the selected works follow the lines of historical discourse or if there is a disfigurement with respect to the construction of the female characters.