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Female Characterization in Four Colombian Novels

Area 10 – Scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche

This study will analyze female characterization in four novels by Colombian authors and what, exactly, these depictions express about Colombian society. The novels were written by authors whose literary recognition vary from the Nobel laureate and controversial Gabriel García Márquez (1927- 2014) to the commercially successful Jorge Franco Ramos (born 1964), Laura Restrepo (born 1950), who went on to become director of the Institute of Culture and Tourism in Colombia and has fluorished as a writer in many genres, and the lesser known but critically acclaimed writer from Armenia, Alister Ramírez Márquez (born 1965).

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