ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issues further, we will take a closer look at two novels written by Nicaragua's Gioconda Belli in the 1980s. They are La mujer habitada and Sofia de los presagios. It considers her novels emblematic of both emerging postmodern traits in Central America, as well as a turning point in feminist literature for the region. The world of magic and eroticism will resist the hounding of reason, just as Sofía does, and will emerge triumphant in time and space. Eroticism, marginalized from the discursive practices of the Central American novel, confronts the ideological rigidities that informed the previous dialogue, generating a fusion between erotic and political vitality. In the Central American case, alien appears as a more explicitly political concern. On the symbolic level, Latin American literature preceded the political crises, revolutions and civil wars that the Central American countries experienced from the mid-seventies through the eighties.
