Female storytellers and empowered characters in Rosa Cuchillo and Blood of the dawn

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the female element as a narrator and empowered character in two novels: Rosa Cuchillo (1997) and Blood of the dawn (2013). We intend to highlight its protagonism, since the reason that it is included in these stories implies that political violence has destabilized, to a certain extent, the modern patriarchal system that subalternizes women. For this reason, in this article we will review the implications that in both novels it is a female character who narrates the story, the agency of these characters and how the referent of the Internal Armed Conflict allows a new configuration of the feminine.