From a gender/feminist perspective of literary studies, this paper analyzes the contestations to the hegemonic imaginaries of the feminine in three novels from Latin America’s turn of the century: El Conspirador (Autobiografía de un hombre público) (1892), by Peruvian writer Mercedes Cabello; Incurables (1905), by the Venezuelan writer, Virginia Gil de Hermoso; and La rosa muerta (1914), by Peruvian writer Aurora Cáceres. Within their ethical-aesthetical and ideological differences, these novels defy the constructions of “the feminine” from both, the bourgeois paradigm that reduces women to the role of “republican mothers”, and angels of the house marked by domestic virtue; as well as the patriarchal modernista -decadentista imaginary that idealizes female’s sickness and death, or its fatal erotism (represented by the femme fatale). The novels’ main characters perform pr...

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We analyze Aurora Cáceres´ (1872-1958) personal scrapbook from a perspective grounded on the tenets of digital humanities and information science. By converting it into datasets, we aim to make machine readable such a complex and heterogeneous object, and also, comprehensively approachable, without ignoring the semantic complexity of the objects´ diverse materialities. We aim to overcome the traditional consideration of such complex devices as sources for extracting isolated information or limited to intimate and apolitical spheres. With her personal scrapbook, Cáceres, like other women intellectuals from her time, showcases her political agency, as well as the strategies deployed in order to build a history and memoir in which she has got a leading role. Moreover, having been released as open, the datasets can be profited from by other researchers worldwide. Therefore, this work aim...