Colonialidad del poder y género: una historia local

Abstract

This article aims to contribute –from a women’s writing perspective– to the visibility of the ways in which the female role has been structured in a provincial society in northern argentina by means of mechanisms established by the coloniality of power (anibal Quijano, 2000). Thus, an analysis of the textual and discourse operations by which this role is constructed to produce certain meaning effects is made, postulating that the ways in which discourses are pro- duced and transmitted along with interdiscursivity, reveal what language use hides or distorts in a non-conscious manner. to  serve this purpose, a brief summary about how gender is used to exert the coloniality of power is first introduced, and then a description of some specific issues found in local narratives written in the early 1900s is presented.