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Gender in visions of the daughters of albion and La Emancipada: a comparative analysis of the problem of gender in the Ecuadorian and british romantic societies

Abstract:

This research intends to analyze the problem of gender relationships between men and women through the perspective of two literary pieces from the British and Ecuadorian Romanticism: Visions of the Daughters of Albion, by William Blake, and La Emancipada, by Miguel Riofrio. To fulfill this purpose, the analysis uses hermeneutics to extract ideologies, opinions, and categories from the different actions of the different characters Rosaura, Oothoon, Eduardo, Theotormon - concerning gender relationships. This research considers that both literary pieces, during the XVIII and XIX centuries, established a similar point of view about the gender problem that unmasks relationships between men and women from the Romanticism context in the British and Ecuadorian societies, and it gives us some notions about why these irregular relationships are still persisting but not with the same strength as before, and why they will go little by little vanishing due to the tension in the social imagination and the pressure of modern institutions that push us to make these relationships disappear from the context of the XX and XXI centuries. Power, frictions, repressions, struggles, myths, prostitution, and sexual issues are the topics analyzed in these stories in order to get a new perspective of gender relationships that characterizes our occidental societies nowadays.