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  • Chapter 26 - The Ocampo Sisters

  • from Part III - Literary Names
  • Edited by Alejandra Laera, University of Buenos Aires, Mónica Szurmuk, Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
  • Book:
    A History of Argentine Literature
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 404-421

  • 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.