The Ocampo Sisters

doi:10.1017/9781009283069.027

Chapter 26 - The Ocampo Sisters

from Part III - Literary Names

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024

Laura A. Arnés and

Julia Kratje

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Alejandra Laera and

Mónica Szurmuk

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Alejandra Laera: Affiliation:
University of Buenos Aires
Mónica Szurmuk: Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina

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Summary

Victoria and Silvina Ocampo are two writers of undeniable importance for the Argentine literary tradition. Even more when read through a feminist lens. Recognizing that there’s a lot of critical material written about them, this chapter proposes a different approach. Through the intersection between archive, fiction, and domestic spaces, it addresses the relationship between the sisters, their works, and their day-to-day environment. According to gender studies, houses, family relationships, and friendships (together with the forms of obedience, love, and conflict they imply) offer an opportunity to study the construction of a system of individual, sexual, and generational identities that will influence the Ocampos’ works as well as their ways of intervening in culture, interrupting and deviating traditions and standards, voices, and writings.

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Feminist literary studies Victoria Ocampo Silvina Ocampo domestic space twentieth-century Argentine literature

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Information: A History of Argentine Literature , pp. 404 - 421

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009283069.027 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2024

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