Virgins, Mothers, and Whores: Female Archetypes in Gabriel García Márquez's "Cien Años de Soledad" (1967) and Isabel Allende's "La Casa de los Espíritus" (1982)
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Burrows, Vera
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Abstract: In "Literary Archetypes and Female Role Alternatives: The Woman and the Novel in Latin America," Jane S. Jaquette divides the female characters in García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad into three archetypes: Mother, Witch/Mysterious Woman, and Wife/Concubine. Jaquette's proposal is a departure from the traditional archetypes of women in Latin American literature of the Virgin, the Mother, and the Whore, all of which have their genesis in biblical literature. Unfortunately, Jaquette's archetypal schema is inadequate, for only a few of Cien Años's characters manage to fit into her three categories; she ignores important main characters that are neither mothers, nor witches, nor wives.
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2017
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Alephvirgul UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences