Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century: Invisibility and Possibility

Abstract

The paper examines one of the problems that women researchers face of Mexico: the general lack of interest in feminine cultural production. Exemplifies this through the case of mexican women writers of the nineteenth century, about whom little is known at present. In that century there were women novelists, poets, playwrights and highly recognized journalists; but at the time, all were forgotten by literary history. Even today, there are academic spaces where the relevance of those pioneer women are denied: they were the first women who could realize the professional writing systematically remunerated and valued. Recognize their heritage means identifying a genealogy to which women researchers and women writers today owe much because it involved the arrival of women at the public space through use of the word. To overcome the forgetfulness of that heritage, the paper proposes to conduct collaborative work between women researchers, supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, of Mexico.