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Colombia's female writers of 20th century

 

Alba Lucía Ángel

 

 

Singer, actress, translator, short story writer and novelist. Studied in the school of the Franciscan mothers in Pereira, where at age 16 directed the student magazine. She studied art history at the U de los Andes, Bogotá, as a student of Argentina critic Marta Traba, the sipped U of Paris and Rome. Occasionally she has worked very different trades and jobs: hippie at age 17, travel agent, secretary; Made mounts and film performances, worked in cowboy movies, made simple papers; sang in Italian television playing rancheras, poems and Latin American folk songs, toured much of Europe, accompanying himself on guitar. She was two Bogotanos newspaper correspondent. She worked as a translator and editor of the publishing Barral Barcelona City where she has been for a long time.

 

"Alba Lucia Ángel was a tenaciously distressed character; the conflict was that she could not find herself, but time was commissioned to fix this mess. As adolescence was behind the maturity door was open to encounter there with a new person: her true self. She was performed without haste, but if truce, leaving the entire anguish, but obviously now he's slower with an inner peace that is the most positive stage of her life in a state of consciousness that definitely goes by one name: entrance to adulthood. "Gilma Jiménez.

 

"Alba Lucia Angel stood out for her progressive growth in narrative capacity asshe published three novels: first, Girasoles en Invierno (1970) is a first-person narrator recounts in immediate present, external reality and imaginary inland from Paris. It is a novel sometimes trite in the use of images, and some lack of dynamic content. Dos veces Alicia (1972) finds dynamism in literary movement overcomes the problems of language of the first novel, and the changing relationship of the narrator and the reader in the fictional world is the main success of the novel. Estaba La Pájara Pinta Sentada en el Verde Limón  (1975) ... it can see a break in the work of Alba Lucia, and another step toward maturity in narrative. "Raymond L. Williams.

She was mainly devoted to the novel, but also has written plays, essays and poetry. Many of her works have a feminist perspective, and address issues such as the rights of women and their history.

1970 Girasoles en Invierno (novel).

1972 Dos veces Alicia (novel).

1975 Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en su verde limón (novel).

1975 Libros de Arte (about art).

1979 ¡Oh, gloria inmarcesible! (tales).

1981 Visión del arte (about art).

1982 Misiá Señora (novel).

1984 Las Andariegas (novel).

1991 Siete lunas y un espejo (about art).

2002 Tierra de nadie (novel).

She also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, as Diario del Caribe, La nueva prensa and el Espectador.

 

The writings of Alba Lucía glimpse concern the situation of women in societies with traditionalcutting and "their participation in a story that is often dominated by male priorities" (Ibid). Her works Misiá Señora, Estaba la Pájara Pinta, Las Andariegas y Siete Lunas y Un Espejo show a critique of the author, a female alignment mechanisms and proposes turn "an urgent search for the relationship with the other."

 

Alba Lucía Ángel is considered an experimental writer, as the narrative resources used, breaks the linearity of the story: it is a postmodern writer. The incorporation that Angel makes her personal experience to fiction related to women's writing, as this is one of the characteristic features of it. All these features require that the reader is "an active reader".

 

This writer is one of the few that has become known both in the country and abroad. In the mid-sixties era travels to Europe, where "the sound of his guitar and his voice, manages to travel the old world" (Jaramillo, Negret, & Robledo, 1995) . Is still there where Alba Lucia Angel creates one of his stories called Misiá Señora (1984) in which recreates from different narrative voices, the life of a Colombian woman named Mariana, displayed in three chapters “tengo una muñeca vestida de azul”, “Antígona sin sombra” y “Los dueños del silencio”.

 

Mariana is a young woman who has grown into "a culture that suspicion of the body and sexuality, which is sin touching and even look, and where it is sacrilege to bathe in the company of other teenagers." The model of Misiá Señora is a model in which the men of the family are the lords and masters; "They handle sexual possession and motherhood as the mechanisms of subjugation that allows them to have their status and unquestionable authority."

 

Through history and events happening in the life of Mariana, she is taken to a hospital because she has met a nice man, with whom she has sex. Later she discovers that he is a homosexual lover and is married. Marina is confused and goes crazy and constantly hears voices saying:  “El adulterio tendría que ser como antes. ¡Lapidarlas!” o “Las que se crían así, medio morrongas, como maullando pasitico son las que salen después como un molino de viento” (pág 267). Upon leaving the hospital, comes a new, very different Mariana, where "madness is the representation of the conceptual jolt necessary for the emergence of a new imaginary". (Jaramillo, Negret, & Robledo, 1995) .

 

One of her best known works is Estaba la Pájara pinta sentada en su verde limón (1975), in which the history of Colombia is recreated, where the main character is distinctly feminine, Ana; in this story's central character experiences include: hopes and frustrations, besides trying to examine "the implications and variations that women do not love, but they beget children; and its impact on two decades of the history of Colombia is the most important issue of the work " (Jaramillo, Negret, & Robledo, 1995) .

 

This story is a clear interpretation of the Colombian history, its culture, in which a contradiction and a gap in the base is noted, because this story has not allowed that it can "build a feminine identity" for women who have born in recent times have had to "assume a marginal identity and completely dependent on male patterns" 

 

 

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