Reseña: “La imaginación patriarcal. Emergencia y silenciamento de la mujer escritora en la prensa y la literatura ecuatorianas, 1860-1900”

Abstract

The aim of this article is to review La imaginación Patriarcal by Juan Carlos Grijalva, a work that explores how 19th-century Ecuadorian and foreign women writers were silenced in the press and literature while emerging amidst the patriarchal structures of the time. Through a multidisciplinary approach combining history, literature, and law, Grijalva examines the rise of these authors and the representation of women in the world of fiction. Utilizing primary sources and an extensive bibliographic appendix, the book highlights the importance of literary sorority networks that reveal the connections between women from 19th-century Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Cuba, Germany, Italy, France, England, and Spain. Among its key contributions are the examination of female agency through writing, the historical context of women's suffrage in Ecuador, and advances in the defense of educational, civil, and political equality. This work significantly contributes to the history of women and offers a substantial methodological contribution to interdisciplinary literary studies.