Female Actants in the Work of Maria Elena Walsh
Drawing on a discursive-grammatical approach, this paper analyzes the female characters in the stories “Historia de una Princesa, su papá y el Príncipe Kinoto Fukasuka” (1966) and “Papalina, la tortuga con verruga”, both included in Cuentopos de Gulubú (1966). These characters tend to introduce disr...
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I28-R145-17434_oai2026-02-10 Romero, María Cecilia 2025-12-19 Drawing on a discursive-grammatical approach, this paper analyzes the female characters in the stories “Historia de una Princesa, su papá y el Príncipe Kinoto Fukasuka” (1966) and “Papalina, la tortuga con verruga”, both included in Cuentopos de Gulubú (1966). These characters tend to introduce disruptions both within the literary canon of the marvelous genre and beyond it. In other words, this disruption can be understood not only in terms of the literary originality of María Elena Walsh’s work, but also as a way of questioning the establishment of stereotyped female roles in our society. To support this reading and interpretation of these tales, we conduct an analysis based on the construction of the female actants in the stories. While the concept of actants stems from the study of the structure of literary texts (Propp, 1985 [1928]; Greimas, 1971), where characters fulfill specific roles and support the functionality of the story as a whole (destinator, object, recipient, helper, etc.), in this investigation, we mainly refer to the concept of actants at the clause level. This means that in each clause the actants are defined or redefined as the narrative progresses. Throughout this progression, we observe a series of redefinitions ultimately oriented toward a single objective: challenging certain stereotypes, not only literary but also social. Desde una perspectiva gramatical discursiva, en el presente trabajo analizamos los personajes femeninos en los cuentos “Historia de una Princesa, su papá y el Príncipe Kinoto Fukasuka” y “Papalina, la tortuga con verruga”, pertenecientes al libro Cuentopos de Gulubú (1966). Estos personajes se caracterizan por establecer rupturas tanto dentro del canon literario del género maravilloso como por fuera de él. Es decir, esta ruptura no solo puede leerse desde la originalidad literaria de la obra de María Elena, sino también como una forma de cuestionar el establecimiento de roles femeninos estereotipados en nuestra sociedad. Para sostener esta lectura e interpretación de los textos mencionados realizaremos un análisis basado en la construcción de los actantes femeninos en los relatos. Si bien el concepto de actantes surge del estudio de la estructura de textos literarios (Propp, 1985 [1928]; Greimas, 1971), en la que los personajes presentan un rol determinado y sostienen la funcionalidad del relato en su totalidad (destinador, objeto, destinatario, ayudante, etc.), en esta investigación nos referimos principalmente al concepto de actantes desde el nivel de la cláusula. Esto significa que en cada cláusula los actantes se definen o reconfiguran a medida que avanza el relato. En su desarrollo podemos ver ciertas redefiniciones que finalmente se organizan con un mismo objetivo: romper con ciertos estereotipos no solo literarios sino también sociales. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/17434 10.34096/filologia.n57.17434 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/17434/15645 Derechos de autor 2025 María Cecilia Romero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Filología; Vol. 2 No. 57 (2025); 129-146 Filología; Vol. 2 Núm. 57 (2025); 129-146 2422-6009 0071-495X discursive grammatical analysis actants stereotypical female roles fairy tale genre Gulubú Tales análisis gramatical discursivo actantes roles femeninos estereotipados género maravilloso Cuentopos de Gulubú Female Actants in the Work of Maria Elena Walsh Los actantes femeninos en la obra de María Elena Walsh info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=filologia&d=17434_oai |
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Drawing on a discursive-grammatical approach, this paper analyzes the female characters in the stories “Historia de una Princesa, su papá y el Príncipe Kinoto Fukasuka” (1966) and “Papalina, la tortuga con verruga”, both included in Cuentopos de Gulubú (1966). These characters tend to introduce disruptions both within the literary canon of the marvelous genre and beyond it. In other words, this disruption can be understood not only in terms of the literary originality of María Elena Walsh’s work, but also as a way of questioning the establishment of stereotyped female roles in our society. To support this reading and interpretation of these tales, we conduct an analysis based on the construction of the female actants in the stories. While the concept of actants stems from the study of the structure of literary texts (Propp, 1985 [1928]; Greimas, 1971), where characters fulfill specific roles and support the functionality of the story as a whole (destinator, object, recipient, helper, etc.), in this investigation, we mainly refer to the concept of actants at the clause level. This means that in each clause the actants are defined or redefined as the narrative progresses. Throughout this progression, we observe a series of redefinitions ultimately oriented toward a single objective: challenging certain stereotypes, not only literary but also social. |
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