El silencio de la sibila: mujer y vanguardia en "Chinina Migone" (1928) y "En la ciudad de las grandes pruebas" (1952) de Rosa Chacel.

"Chinina Migone" (1928) and "En la ciudad de las grandes pruebas" (1952) by Rosa Chacel are a product of her struggle with the masculine ideal that defined the avant-garde. Both stories use silence as a rhetorical strategy to express the author's resistance. In "Chinina Migone," a young woman remains silent to defy her parents and embody the quintessential modern woman in the society of the period: the silent film star. "En la ciudad," written in exile, uses the figure of a cybernetic sybil to represent the intellectual ambitions of the women of the time. A woman voluntarily elects to have her head separated from her body and appears as a fairground attraction dispensing silent but infallible predictions to the audience. In these two stories of self-mutilation and empowerment, Chacel demonstrates the high price paid by creative women to achieve a measure of relevance in the culture of their time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]