Hollow Shell: The Inhospitality of the House in La Ruta De Su Evasión by Yolanda Oreamuno

 

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Argitaratze data:2025
Deskribapena:This paper analyzes La ruta de su evasión (1940) by Yolanda Oreamuno beyond feminist approaches, which, despite their relevance, tend to lead to oversimplified arguments that link the novel with feminine expression. In this essay the novel is assumed from a concept that in the antecedent and contemporary literature had been constituted as the basic nucleus of society: the house. The approach arises from the topology of the domestic in its process of cracking and disappearance. The house does not reveal itself as a place of welcome or protection for its members, which leads to their expulsion in forms of evasion. Nor does it offer guests the proverbial hospitality that has characterized interactions with strangers since classical antiquity. But the other strangers, foreigners, can also be hostile, as the etymology and the Greco-Latin tradition shows. This way also implies an approach to the house as a space that involves larger dimensions, such as the equivalence on a small scale with the nation.
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Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
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Gako-hitza:house
mother
hospitality
hostility
foreign
casa
madre
hospitalidad
hostilidad
extranjero