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Creative Flights of Fancy and Imagination in Virginia Elena Ortea's Risas y lágrimas (1901).

The article highlights the works of journalist Virginia Elena Ortea. Topics include Ortea's feminist thought and her exploration of women's roles at the fin-de- siècle, Ortea's affirmation of her creative process and reshaping of modernist imagery in two of the stories of book "Risas y lágrimas", Or...

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Published in:Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) Vol. 73; no. 2; pp. 160 - 176
Main Author: CLARK, EMILY JOY
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Dec2020
Subjects:
Women journalists
Women's roles
Modernism (Literature)
Risas y lágrimas (Book)
Feminism
Caribbean
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Summary:The article highlights the works of journalist Virginia Elena Ortea. Topics include Ortea's feminist thought and her exploration of women's roles at the fin-de- siècle, Ortea's affirmation of her creative process and reshaping of modernist imagery in two of the stories of book "Risas y lágrimas", Ortea's corpus and its modernist aspects permits a broader interpretation of her writing during feminism's early definition in the Caribbean, and her foray into drama, depicts Caribbean feminists who have read French feminist texts.