Magola: visión ginocéntrica y empoderamiento de la mujer

Authors

  • María Elsy Cardona Saint Louis University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i1.4525

Abstract

Magola, the cartoon character created by Adriana (Nani) Mosquera, has been
called “a hero of the Colombian comic.” Her activism in favour of women’s
empowerment and human rights has brought her international renown. This
article discusses the combination of image and text to deconstruct, subvert,
and revise the patriarchal Biblical discourse in Magola: La verdadera historia
de Eva, and the use of a gynocentric discourse that leads to the empowerment
of women in her blogs, Sobreviviendo en pareja and Mujer y caricaturista (El
Espectador). This analysis is informed by Gerda Lerner’s discussion in The
Creation of Feminist Consciousness of the challenges that creative women
have encountered throughout history, and the gynocentric strategies
described by John Wilcox in Women Poets of Spain 1860-1990: Toward a
Gynocentric Vision.

Published

2019-11-05