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BUSTAMANTE BERMUDEZ, Gerardo. Este tiempo clausurado que no me pertenece: Los años falsos, de Josefina Vicens. Valenciana [online]. 2011, vol.4, n.8, pp.57-75. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i8.214.

In 1982, Josefina Vicens published her second novel entitled The False Years. This article discusses the issue of Mexican patriarchy in family structures where power, violence, infidelity, corruption, machismo and the subordination of women with regard to the authority of the patriarch form the basis of an incisive discourse in which Vicens observes gender relations within the traditional Mexican family. The identity of the novel’s protagonist is discussed throughout the narrative, as is his ambivalence with respect to the construction of his gender, a feeling relegated to the margins of his wishes and possible acheivements. It is the portrait of a life nullified by a sort of testament of gender handed down by the absent/present figure of the patriarch.

Palabras llave : Patriarchy; domination; categorization; gender; culture.

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