The columnists in El Mercurio, Literary, News and Cultural Newspaper of the City of Santiago de Cuba During the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This paper presents a study of rescue, assessment and analysis of works by women in the Santiago newspaper El Mercurio is performed. Vital work, because the texts were in danger of disappearing due to the relentless passage of time. Most of the authors studied are little known in our local literary history shows these with other most important as Luisa Pérez de Zambrana. The hermeneutical textual and content analysis were the specific methods used. This research contributes to the reconstruction of the nineteenth century literary Santiago, through the collected texts, which subsequently remain available to other researchers of female literary archeology in the region