El cuerpo “cárcel del alma” y la construcción de nación en “Dolores” de Soledad Acosta de Samper

Abstract

One of those novels that are little known in the world of Colombian literature is “Dolores” (1887). Written at a time when women “not writing”, which also forced the newly won freedom to intellectuals in the region to create nation, its imaginary and indentity. In this join effort, the almost aristocratic writer and journalist Soledad Acosta de Samper, who, without forgetting this duty as a voice for women, has its own history of romanticism that prevailed in his day adds. Here is analyzed as “Dolores” the body is presented as a symbol of the strict social hierarchies in which the fledgling republic was organized, but also the sick body as a symbol of women’s isolation and the only source of personal development in which they wanted and you will, confine women