THE STRENGTH OF THE ENTRY OF SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE INTO THE CULTURAL WORD OF WESTERN EUROPE DURING THIS LAST THIRTY YEARS HAS SINGULARLY IGNORED WOMEN WRITERS. AFTER CENTURIES OF MACHO OPPRESSION IN THE NEW WORLD, THIS TWENTIETH CENTURY HAS BEEN THE WITNESS OF THE EMERGENCE OF FEMININE LITERATURE. THE TEAM OF WRITERS IN STUDY DOES NOT REALLY CONSTITUTE A GENERATION OF HOMOGENEOUS LITERATES. THEY ARE NOVELISTS WHO DOES NOT FOLD TO THE LAWS OF TRADITIONAL FEMINIST NOVELS AND AT THE SAME TIME THEIR FEMINISM IS FAR AWAY FROM THE EXTREMIST VERSION. CRISTINA PERI ROSSI, GRISELDA GAMBARO, ELENA PONIATOWSKA, ANA VASQUEZ, VILMA FUENTES ET ZOE VALDES DO UP TO EXPLORE THE NEAREST REALITY, TO INTEGRATE ALL THE LEVELS OF REPRESENTATION, SHOWING THAT WOMEN ARE SOMETHING_ELSE THAN CHARACTERS DEFINED IN RELATION WITH EACH OTHER. THE IDENTITY STAYS AS THE MAIN WORRY OF WOMEN NOVELISTS AND THEY DECLINE THIS SUBJECT IN A FAMILIAR, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THEIR BELONGING. OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO CONSTITUTE A REPRESENTATIVE UNITY, REVIVING CONTINUOUSLY THE POSSIBLE SIGNIFICATION OF THE WORK : WHICH IS ITS NOVELTY ? AND IS THIS NOVELTY CONCLUSIVE ? IN THE LIGHT OF THOSE TEXTS, WHAT DOES TO BE A WOMAN WRITER IN SOUTH AMERICA, IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MEAN ? AND WHY DOES IT CONSTITUTE A PARTICULARITY IN A SOUTH AMERICAN CONTEXT ? THANKS TO A NEW NOVELIST STAFF AND TO NEW SITUATIONS THAT NEW THEMATIC AND NEW MODELS APPEAR. THE TARGET OF A NEW LITERATURE IS TO CREATE A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS IN THEIR FAVOR. WOMEN WRITERS RENEW BY THIS FACT APPROPRIATING WORLDS, TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED AS MALE, SUCH AS POLITICS, REINVESTING AT THE SAME TIME WORLDS WHICH HAVE ALWAYS BE GRANTED TO THEM, SUCH AS THE FAMILY. _______________________