El The universe of the feminine and the literature of the Colombian Caribbean, a look at In December the breezes arrived by Marvel Moreno

Abstract

The article now presented addresses the construction of the feminine in Marvel Moreno's novel En diciembre llegaban las brisas focusing on the stereotypes that limit women's identities from fulfilling uniformly established and naturalized social roles. It is agreed that such representations are not neutral expressions, but rather constructions that have been precisely legitimized, to the point of being believed to be inherent to the feminine condition. All these ideas were based on the assertion that construction is consistent with the premises that gender grants to performative practice, that is, those reiterations of the discipline of each social norm of morality that creates subjectivities. This logic, developed by authors such as Judith Butler, is articulated within the framework of a critical analysis of colonialism, understood not only as a historical fact, but as a remnant power structure that continues to shape ways of life, thought, and social interaction in Latin America. From this perspective, we propose a reading of the story that captures its subversive power. In this reading, Marvel Moreno reveals the mechanisms of control over women's bodies and voices in a society that has attempted to narrate their silence and has reduced them to just that, that is, to not being or being these voices that have forced them to submit to stereotypes.