El sujeto cultural colonizado en los cuentos “Un alma” y “El clavel”, de Ricardo Fernández Guardia

Abstract

In this paper, it is analyzed (from the sociocritical notion of the colonized cultural subject) the “ambiguity” in the representation of the female national subjects, in the short stories “A Soul” and “The Carnation” by Ricardo Fernández Guardia. In these short stories, the author-narrator describes women in an uncertain manner, and this uncertainty –as shown in the analysis– comes from the colonial discourses that promoted a social organization based on the distinction between “castes”. Th hierarchical organization implied, consequently, the contempt of those subjects in whom their “impurity”, their “monstrosity” was more noticeable, because they were far from the European values of civilization. Then, the representations of the women in these short stories reveal the colonized cultural subject, which is in the ideological base that sustains all the stories of Cuentos Ticos.