Angel Albalucia Marulanda
... Angel is perceived as an insubordinate and subversive writer because she promotes the total liberation of women from the male patriarchy that has marginalized them. For this reason, Angel desires to create a space for women where they can take control of their lives and their identity in order to shed their gender role as second class citizens, although this means a breaking with masculine society. ... Angel seeks to secure a writing space in a society controlled by men who subjugate women by negating their voice. ... Angel depicts La Violencia, the eighteen years of war (1948-64) in Colombia. ... Angel has always tried to present a realistic and panoramic image of the anarchy that exists due to sociopolitical and economic turmoil in Colombian society. ... Angel makes a trip through national geography, revealing the true Colombia and certain phenomena such as drug trafficking which have become an important element in the national reality. ... After presenting the dual gender roles, the womans place in Colombian society, and the empowerment of masculine society, in Misía señora (1982), Angel describes the protagonist, Mariana, in the three stages of her life: childhood, marriage, and madness. ... As mentioned earlier, Albalucía Angel rejects the patriarchal definition of sexuality, which establishes a sexual difference between human beings, based upon their reproductive organs and their functions as a basis for feminine identity. ... The representation of this division appears to be the purpose of Angel in her novel Las Andariegas ( 1984) and the play Siete lunas y un espejo (1991). ... As a result, Angel begins the text with the descent from the heavens of a group of women holding hands whom will later ascend in the same manner. ... For this reason, Angel chooses in her play seven women who have been subjugated by men at different times in history. ... Therefore, Angel shows the imaginative power of women to create multiples spaces for themselves by moving away from the exclusive reproductive role that the patriarchy has assigned to them. ... In conclusion, Angel s productions show the construction of gender in patriarchal society as seen through its foundation as well as its rules.