FROM THE PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE EXCEPTION TO THE CULTURAL WORKER. THE PROCESS OF THE ENTRY OF WRITINGS BY WOMEN INTO THE FIELD OF CRITICISM AND LITERARY STUDIES IN CHILE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

This article offers an overview of the trajectory of literary criticism made by women in Chile during the twentieth century. It reviews the process of entry of their writings into the cultural and literary field that begins with their displacement from the private to the public space until the moment in which it is possible to identify a relatively regular entry into the elusive cenacle of thought. To investigate this process, this work explores the socio-historical conditions that allowed and facilitated it, as well as cases in which women entered the most resistant terrain of the patriarchal lettered city: that of the production of thought and formal knowledge.