Dolores en soledad una visión en blanco y negro

Abstract

Dolores (1867), a novel forgotten since the first Colombian literary canon, its author, Doña Soledad Acosta de Samper, not recognized until one hundred years after her death (2013) and a literary genre, undervalued and almost non-existent, the serial novel, are the fundamental axes of this work. Current issues such as gender studies, socio-criticism and literary history appear in this text, which allows us to comment on them from different theoretical proposals. The novel Dolores (1867) by Doña Soledad Acosta de Samper, initially published in the form of a serial, serves as a pretext from the perspective of gender studies by Judith Botler, the social theories of Pierre Bourdieu and the research on the history of literature by Cedillo, Villegas and others; allow us in the first instance to analyze how the work of Doña Soledad represents not only a vision of the feminine, from the feminine and from the fact of being a woman in a nineteenth-century society that was patriarchal, but also a representation of culture, values and social divisions of a historical moment. The serial novel as a promoter of the contemporary novel, the characterization of the protagonist and the characters of the novel allows us to address issues such as gender studies and social studies, also the life of the author frames these same issues from the plane of literature and the vision of life and commitment of Doña Soledad. Oblivion seems to be the term that unites and unites these three topics of literature that we want to present today for their memory, hopefully perennial.