The fallen woman’s image in some mexican literature’s works

Abstract

This paper is a review of the ways in which the image of the fallen woman with evident religious reminiscences has been developed throughout the nineteenth century in Mexican literature. Texts by Payno, Vicente Riva Palacio, Rafael Delgado, Tablada, among others, make up the corpus for this work, which discusses how concerns of social nature seep into the literature and how often it become a drift toward moral and condemning perspectives of the prostituted woman. At all times, this essay attempts to rebuild the controversial dialogue that was held between the verbal art and the profuse scientific and moral discourse of that time by tracking the reminiscences of this image in some of the works of the twentieth century.