¿Mba’érepa?: Las Niñas Del Naranjel e a Colonialidade

Abstract

The present research focuses on the analysis of the construction and resignification of the historical figure Catalina/Antonio de Erauso in Las niñas del naranjel (2024), by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, examining the presence of coloniality elements in the narrative. The study problematizes the representation of the character in comparison with other historical and literary discourses that portray him, as well as the literary language strategies mobilized in the resignification of this figure and the novel’s positioning toward coloniality. With this purpose, the general objective of the investigation was to examine the narrative strategies involved in the resignification of the historical character, establishing a dialogue between the novel and the autobiography Historia de la Monja Alférez (1838), in order to observe how coloniality is inscribed in the constitution of the text. To this end, authors such as Palermo (2019), Bhabha (1998), Quijano (2005a), Lugones (2020), Butler (2018), and Braidotti (2000) were essential to the analysis of the work. Thus, this is a decolonial study of a qualitative-interpretive nature which, through a bibliographic review, examines dissident gender protagonism. As a result, we understand that Las niñas del naranjel (2024) reinscribes the character elsewhere, highlighting the importance of transculturation and eco-affectivity in the constitution of an existence that challenges and displaces colonial constraints.