Otro género, otro mundo: sexualidad y suicidio en la literatura de mujeres

This study carries out a critical and empathetic analysis of the birth, evolution and consolidation in poetic, novelistic and autobiographical expression of the themes of sexuality and female suicide, two physical, psychological and sociological phenomena with vigorous artistic potential, although culturally muzzled . Starting from a patriarchal architecture in European literature, with masculine authorship, inhibitory language and objectification of the woman's body as an erotic and self-destructive artifact, this work rescues genuinely feminine voices, from nineteenth-century and late-century cacophonies to their textual and ideological maturation throughout of the 20th century. With a progressive convergence between these life and death instincts in women's literature –of great importance for their feedback with historical milestones on gender equality and the core position reached by the female collective as a subject of the artistic act–, this study reflects the audacity, entrepreneurship and modernity of North American writers, in front of their European namesakes, when it comes to banishing taboos and silences from the Old World around sexual exaltation and organic collapse.