La patria titubeante: El envés de la Guerra de Independencia en La mujer del caudillo (1952), de Nery Russo

This article examines Nery Russo's La mujer del caudillo (1952) in order to explore how this novel portrays the woman as a historical subject and especially how the scientifi c discipline called "History" and its notion of "truth" are treated in this text. In this regard, the following issues are highlighted: (1) the mechanisms that allow the author to present historiography as the partitioning of a signifi cant exchange network formulated to regulate identities, and (2) the strategies by which Russo gives an account of herself in the Venezuelan cultural fi eld in the early fi fties, when the domestic role of Venezuelan women seemed mandatory.