This essay examines the emphasis on corporeality in narratives by two Spanish American writers, Rosario Ferré’s “Maldito amor” (1986) and Diamela Eltit’s Jamás el fuego nunca (2007). Using as a framework theories that consider the body as historical, corporeality as intrinsic to subjectivity, and the importance of intersubjective relations, this study proposes that in highlighting the subject’s corporeality the texts allude to the intersection between individual intimacy, relations with the other, and society’s values as foundations in the making of individual subjects. By representing subjectivity in their corporeality, these texts reveal concrete and unique intimacies in which gender acquires special relevance.
