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Journal Article
The Sublime Corpse in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Women's Journal Album Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello (1860)
2009
Overview
This article examines Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's choice to include articles depicting the advanced decay of cadavers, which are simultaneously horrible and awesome, in her women's periodical Album Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello. Background on Avellaneda's biography, women's print culture, and theories of the sublime provide a frame for the analyses. The stories under consideration are \"Historia de un suicidio,\" by the Venezuelan Rafael Maria Baralt, which depicts the corpse of a young woman who took her own life, and \"Sueño y dolor\" by the Spanish poet Dolores Gómez de Cádiz de Velasco, a first-person mourning in prose of the writer's dead infant. The graphic yet aesthetically rendered descriptions of decaying flesh anticipate the new literary vocabulary of 1880s decadence in Latin America. I propose that Avellaneda-as-editor employs the articles depicting corpses to shock readers into identification with women's suffering in an unorthodox form of early feminist social critique.
