Reflexiones sobre la búsqueda de la autodefinición e identidad de la mujer a través de la experiencia de las protagonistas de los cuentos Paladar y La historia incómoda que nos contó Olivia el día de su cumpleaños, de Solange Rodríguez Pappe

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Abstract: Should women continue to be subject to measurable historical, cultural and hegemonic parameters? as social values? Question that allows us to begin this essay and address in the following lines as the main theme, the reflections on the search for self-definition and identity of women through the experience of the protagonists of the stories Paladar and The uncomfortable story that Olivia told us on her birthday, by Solange Rodríguez Pappe, establishing as the main idea that this exploration carried out by them has a main component, freedom. The devalued concept of women that underlies the collective imagination of society as a hegemonic cultural construction, inherited and sexist, presents an insurmountable resistance to the recognition of a self-definition and feminine identity that are beyond constitutive elements and necessary, but not sufficient. In the end, the image of the Hispanic American woman will remain trapped like a mirror in each of the protagonists' actions, confronted with readers, they will have the mission of succeeding where the others have failed, which is why Write this academic work.