CARMEN LYRA: POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND PERSONAL ASPECTS DURING THE ANTIFASCISM ERA

Abstract

The Costa Rican antifascism was a conflict movement of intellectual vanguards that became a civic and nationalist movement under the control of the political alliances of the 40´s. Such change was partially possible because of the left political culture. Therefore in the article is analyzed the case of Carmen Lyra and the antifascism, whose personal, cultural and gender’s dimensions of their communist militancy strengthened the order of the nation’s liberal myth. These aspects are analyzed with theoretical elements of feminism and the studies from gender-subjectivities, to bring a perspective of the role of Lyra in the antifascism, and the way that the subjective and political matters mixed.