Abstract
This study analyzes the concept of modern subjectivity focusing on the gender representation of female masters in Juan Francisco Manzano''s Autobiografía (1836), Anselmo Suárez y Romero''s Francisco, El ingenio o las Delicias del Campo (1839) and Félix Tanco y Bosmenie’s Petrona y Rosalía (1838). The narrators of these texts set the cause of the harsh and violent treatment of slaves by upper-class women as lack of rational ability and instability. Through this engendered characterization of masters, these texts internalize the modern subject as a specific man imagined by each narrator. In this regard, this analysis reveals how the modern subject in each text is constituted through the multifaceted characterization of female masters.
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