The work, part of the ACL's Biblioteca Manuel Padorno collection, is structured in two volumes and offers for the first time an exhaustive compilation featuring female Canarian writers from before the 20th century. The event will be attended by researcher José Miguel Perera, professor and academic Oswaldo Guerra, educator and researcher Ramón Díaz, and philologist Nedá Pérez.
This anthology gathers verses from twenty-five women who wrote between 1700 and 1900, many of whom had been studied in isolation or superficially, but never analyzed together or in such depth. Editor José Miguel Perera highlights that the work of these authors is inseparable from the history of Canarian literature and the feminist struggle in the Islands, noting that literature was a key tool for them to express, in a veiled manner, what the sexism and censorship of the time prevented them from saying directly.
The book aims to lay a solid foundation for introducing these creators and fostering new research, with the goal that names such as sor Ana Ángela Arroyo, Antonia Coronado, María Viera, Ángela Mazzini, Victorina Bridoux, Dolores Millares Cubas, or Leocricia Pestana, among many others, cease to be "mere names on lists without substance."
The edition includes a detailed introductory essay by Perera, analyzing the historical context and individual trajectory of each author, followed by a wide selection of their poems. It also incorporates an appendix with fifteen articles and critical texts published in the Canarian press of the time, reflecting on literature and the situation of women.
The two volumes are already available in bookstores and can also be purchased during the presentation in Arucas thanks to the collaboration of Librería Yaya.
