Being a woman in the Mexican serial narrative Juana Inés: between the logic of individual empowerment and the construction of Latin identifications

Abstract

Based on the precept of the dialogical constitution of discourse, we turn to the television miniseries Juana Inés, which portrays the life of the 17th-century Mexican nun and writer to understand which meanings of feminism the production articulates or, better yet, examine the dialogues the miniseries established regarding meanings of feminism. Throughout the seven chapters that make up the miniseries, being a woman plays a central role in the construction of the narrative and the representation of its protagonist. In this context, we note the crossing of an affirmative perspective and the incorporation of the logic of individual empowerment in what is known as “media feminisms” without, however, emptying a political potential and another for Latin identification.