Prólogo

Abstract

This volume explores theoretical models and concrete applications that reformulate the role and the attributes of “heroicity” in different narratives, establishing the Heroine’s Journey. This project including research, analysis, and reflection was developed under the Agreement of Academic Cooperation between the School of Design and Communication of the University of Palermo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Columbia College Chicago (Illinois, USA).

This collaboration aims at generating a gap within dominant traditional thought by developing an original path for reflection in the territory of narrative. Its intent is to discover new gender role proposals that will open the posibility for creating a richer, more complex, and equal world.

All essays in this book have been written with total freedom, and the only stipulation was that papers were thematically relevant. Surely, there are differences in argumentation or stance, which are fully welcomed. The idea of a single and hegemonic line of thought does not have room in our contemporary world, where a gender diversity perspective produces a necessary and liberating shattering towards a more open society