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espanolEl compromiso de Woolf con la educacion femenina y los derechos de las escritoras, presente en su ensayo Una habitacion propia (1929), es aun un tema relevante en las obras de muchas escritoras contemporaneas. Este articulo analiza a la escritora chicana Sandra Cisneros y a la escritora nigeriana Buchi Emecheta como herederas de las reivindicaciones de Woolf. A pesar de las diferencias de periodo, espacio geografico y a la inclusion de categorias relacionadas con sus contextos, como raza, etnicidad y factores postcoloniales, estas escritoras contemporaneas parecen compartir con Woolf sus ansiedades sobre cuestiones de y genero. Es mi intencion, por tanto, analizar su preocupacion por las necesidades de las mujeres en general y de las escritoras en particular. Mas aun, estos personajes femeninos –que son a su vez escritoras– ayudan a estas autoras la escritora a abordar la creacion o recuperacion de una tradicion literaria femenina, lo cual confiere a las escritoras un papel politico de tias que les recuerdan a sus lectores su responsabilidad social. EnglishWoolf’s strong commitment towards female education and female writers’ rights, present in her essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), is still a significant topic in the writings of many contemporary female writers. This article analyses Chicano writer Sandra Cisneros and Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta as inheritors of Woolf’s vindications. Despite the different periods, distant geography, the existence of categories such as race and ethnicity, and the fact that both authors have experienced postcolonialism in different ways, these contemporary writers seem to share with Woolf similar class and gender concerns. It is my intention, hence, to analyze their concern for the needs of women, in general, and female writers, in particular, while they emphasize the lack of opportunities offered to become a female writer. Moreover, their respective female characters –who are writers themselves– help both Cisneros and Emecheta to address the establishment or recovery of a female literary tradition, each in her own way, which presents female writers’ political role as aunts who highlight the readers’ social responsibility. |
