<i>A room/voice of one‘s own</i>: la recuperación de la voz de dos heroínas ferrerianas, Gloria Camprubí e Isabel Monfort

Abstract

Rosario Ferré, who belongs to a generation of socially committed writers in constant search of identity, is a clear example of Puerto Rican Literature. She has always explored her background while favoring beauty within literary creativity. Ferré has declared on many occasions that she writes in order to reinvent herself. Her will to become the author of her own life has forced her to fight- through her writings-against the patriarchal attitudes imposed on her and women in general. This paper intends to analyze two of Ferré's novels, Maldito amor and The House on the Lagoon, in order to explore how this struggle against social injustice is reflected in both of them. The female characters in these works, particularly Gloria Camprubí and Isabel Monfort, are in charge of creating a 'room of one's own', from which they are able to subvert the dominant patriarchal rules. These women stand for Ferré's attempt to recover the voice (and the written word, and thus, the power) of those from whom it was once taken.