Apropiación de la tragedia griega en la literatura hispanoamericana: el caso Elena Garro

Abstract

We start from the Greek tragedy as a genre that assumes and fixes the great myths of the tradition to establish intertextuality with Elena Garro's dramas; the tragic paradigm is applied to expose the vision of women according to time and space. The author uses the timelessness of the myth to update the notions of destiny, death and guilt in order to show its validity. The tragic model delimits the historical interpretation in a deterministic framework, in which the author postulates a pessimistic view of the female condition that she considers immobile despite the supposed evolution of cultures. The process examines the causes to induce criticism.