This is a study of the Memorial of a group of elite creole women, written during the siege of Montevideo by the followers of Rondeau and Artigas. This literary piece has the form of an official request coloured with forensic language, with petitions and allegations in twelve ten-line stanzas. It was the first female incursion in commitment literature in the course of the events leading to Latin-American countries independence, in this case favouring the royalist faction. This text presents the rhetoric profiles of women’s stance in the face of the armed conflict situation in which they were living, and the features that frame it within the educated Spanish standard of that time.
Keywords:
woman and independentism, propagandistic literature, forensic and literary style, American standard
Frago, J. A. (2013). Combat literature of American women in the independence conflict. Boletín De Filología, 48(2), Pág. 49 – 68. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/30232
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