This study analyzes the subjectivity of the female character with Hansen's disease depicted in Dolores, Cuadros de la vida de una mujer (1867), written by Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913), a 19th-century Colombian intellectual and writer. This stu...
This study analyzes the subjectivity of the female character with Hansen's disease depicted in Dolores, Cuadros de la vida de una mujer (1867), written by Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913), a 19th-century Colombian intellectual and writer. This study suggests that the work's representation of disease and female characters subverts the stereotypes of female characters and reveals the limitations of contemporary female intellectuals, while simultaneously exploring the possibility that solidarity between men and women could function as an alternative subjectivity within the contemporary intellectual community. To this end, this study first analyzes the relationship between the male and female characters in the work and the representation of leprosy. Next, it examines how the relationship between the male narrator and the female character, formed through letters and diaries, constructs a new model of intellectual subjectivity.