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In Spanish America, the historical novel has a long tradition and has acquired well-deserved recognition. Both male and female authors have successfully written this genre of novels, albeit with different ideological objectives and aesthetic strategies. One of the most important challenges that women face in history is “to make themselves count,” and the female authors take on this challenge in their works, mixing fiction with history in order to develop plots that intertwine public and private worlds, while undoing hierarchies imposed by patriarchal, colonial systems.
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Varas, P. (2013). Ashes of Izalco: Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation. In: Weldt-Basson, H.C. (eds) Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349705_2
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