(Universidad de Cuenca, 2022-09-05) Astudillo Muñoz, Karen Silvana; Torres Palchisaca, Galo Alfredo
With the present study we will enter the feminine Gothic, a Latin American variant of the
European literary Gothic, which has been adapted to the Latin American context and its
marks are visible in the writing of Solange Rodríguez Pappe, from Guayaquil, precisely in
her collection of short stories La primera vez que vi un fantasma (2018). In this sense, our
work aims to analyze Rodríguez's account, from the concepts of female Gothic according to
Marina Fe (2000), in order to make visible how the author uses the typical marks of
traditional Gothic European and places them in their context; this, to narrate, mainly, the
feminine problems in the society of the 21st century. For the analysis we will use the
hermeneutical method of Paul Ricouer (1995) and his theory of triple mimesis. At the end,
we will show that the Guayaquil woman has taken up and prolonged the gothic tradition,
from a feminine and Latin American perspective, to create transgressive female characters
that are part of plots rooted in our national culture.
