Book contents
- A History of Argentine Literature
- A History of Argentine Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Dates
- Part II Critical Inroads
- Part III Literary Names
- Chapter 21 Sarmiento: Politics, Culture, and Spectacle
- Chapter 22 The Mansilla Siblings: A Story in Syntony
- Chapter 23 Martín Fierro: Subaltern Voices
- Chapter 24 Borges and Argentine Literature: A Detour around the World
- Chapter 25 Roberto Arlt
- Chapter 26 The Ocampo Sisters
- Chapter 27 Alfonsina Storni and Alejandra Pizarnik
- Chapter 28 Displacement and Transfer in Julio Cortázar’s Todos los fuegos el fuego
- Chapter 29 Manuel Puig’s Circuit Bending: Literary Listening against Surveillance
- Chapter 30 Operation Massacre: Dangerous Journalism
- Chapter 31 The Politics of the Poem: From Gelman to Perlongher
- Chapter 32 Scenes from Postmodern Life: Literary Interventions in the Public Sphere
- Chapter 33 Griselda Gambaro and Beyond: A “Dermography” of Contemporary Women’s Theater and Performance
- Chapter 34 César Aira and the Art of Invention
- Index
- References
Chapter 26 - The Ocampo Sisters
from Part III - Literary Names
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
Book contents
- A History of Argentine Literature
- A History of Argentine Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Dates
- Part II Critical Inroads
- Part III Literary Names
- Chapter 21 Sarmiento: Politics, Culture, and Spectacle
- Chapter 22 The Mansilla Siblings: A Story in Syntony
- Chapter 23 Martín Fierro: Subaltern Voices
- Chapter 24 Borges and Argentine Literature: A Detour around the World
- Chapter 25 Roberto Arlt
- Chapter 26 The Ocampo Sisters
- Chapter 27 Alfonsina Storni and Alejandra Pizarnik
- Chapter 28 Displacement and Transfer in Julio Cortázar’s Todos los fuegos el fuego
- Chapter 29 Manuel Puig’s Circuit Bending: Literary Listening against Surveillance
- Chapter 30 Operation Massacre: Dangerous Journalism
- Chapter 31 The Politics of the Poem: From Gelman to Perlongher
- Chapter 32 Scenes from Postmodern Life: Literary Interventions in the Public Sphere
- Chapter 33 Griselda Gambaro and Beyond: A “Dermography” of Contemporary Women’s Theater and Performance
- Chapter 34 César Aira and the Art of Invention
- Index
- References
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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- A History of Argentine Literature , pp. 404 - 421Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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