In many ways, Virginia Woolf’s poetics draw on the Darwinian turn and on early-twentieth-century comparative biology and psychology, disciplines that recast the animal question as an inquiry into subjectivity itself: how do other species live, feel, and perceive? This article argues that Woolf turns that scientific query into a formal challenge for the modernist novel—determined to break experience into a crucible of impressions—while also reframing the question on the intersections of animal...

This work analyzes the presence of the hypothetical sister of Shakespeare, from the third chapter in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, in the essays “La mujer ante el espejo: cinco autobiografías”, by Mexican author Rosario Castellanos, and in “Carta a Julia Burgos”, by Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré. The analysis focuses on the use of such a passage in both texts, which allows to review the tradition of female writers that Castellanos and Ferré renovate in their essays. Many works hav...

Throughout this article, I approach Alfonso Reyes’s typewriters, women that turned office work into a writing workshop: Amparo Dávila and Margos de Villanueva. Dávila, winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, is known for her fiction; only after working with Reyes did her writing migrate from poetry to prose. Villanueva, on the other hand, was a novelist and playwright: her two novels were written during the time she worked with Reyes. This article focuses on the women that appear in the last...