Castellano

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to explore the images of laughter in the poetic works of Alfonsina Storni and the way they relate both to the construction of a poetic voice in the context of the Argentinian literary system at the beginning of the twentieth century and to the dominant ideas about femininity in that period. In order to do that, we are going to focus on her poem “La loba”, published in 1916 and on a series of later poems which feature different images of laughter. We are also going to focus on her chronicles, which were collected in the book Un libro Quemado, in order to link Storni´s literary production to her time and, specifically, to what is called “the ideology of domesticity”.