Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, la esfera pública y el abolicionismo: representaciones del sujeto esclavizado y la esclavitud caribeña en Sab

This article examines the positioning of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and her first novel, Sab, in the early nineteenth-century literary public sphere. It studies the writer’s strategies to establish her work in a predominantly masculine literary field, as well as participate in one of the key debates of the period: slavery and abolition. At the same time, this essay analyzes the representation of enslaved subjects by offering a comparative reading of Sab and The History of Mary Prince, the narrative of an enslaved woman from the British Caribbean. This analysis aims to generate dialogue with recent critical readings that highlight Sab’s ambiguous position toward slavery, as well as problematize the (in)visibility of slave women in both texts.