UN CALVARIO, SECULAR BIOGRAPHY OF A NUN

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Josefina Elizabeth Villa Pérez

Abstract

The exclaustration of 1861 was one of the consequences of the implementation
of the Reform Laws. Due to the expropriation of buildings previously occupied by
religious orders, the old collective forms of female coexistence dissolved once women
were freed from these spaces. From a literary perspective, the novel “Un calvario.
Memorias de una exclaustrada” (A Calvary. Memoirs of an Exclaustrated Nun), by the
modernist writer Alberto Leduc, recreates the process that one of these nuns may have
experienced upon incorporating the new cultural logic imposed by liberal governments.
In this sense, the work is configured as a secular biography that utilizes certain conventions
of nineteenth-century literature, in keeping with a linear idea of history and progress.
In this article, we will demonstrate the use of the novel as a discursive instrument
that seeks to present an imaginary version that leaves aside the contradictions inhere

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