Solange Rodriguez Pappe's “Little Women” on The Colonization of The Male Body

Abstract

The objective of this article is to develop an analysis from the perspective of gender inequality in the story “Little Women”, by the Ecuadorian writer Solange Rodríguez Pappe, which is included in the literary work The Kindness of Strangers (2014). in the context of the Latin American narrative of the last two decades of the 21st century. The methodology to be used is textual analysis to show how the fantastic and supernatural element confronts each other between the little women and Joaquín. In relation to the analysis and results, it is concluded that in the narrative context the development of an exploratory-colonizing relationship of the male body is evident in a misogynistic and ambiguous locus in which female subversion is opposed to male domination.