This paper explores a set of narratives that the writer, educator and
feminist leader Amanda Labarca published in the first quarter of the 20th
century, namely the novel En tierras extra?as (1915), the short novel La
l?mpara maravillosa and the collection of stories Cuentos a mi se?or (both
1921). We are interested in inscribing this corpus of Labarca?s work mainly
in the criollismo, thought of as the Latin American and Chilean literary
sensibility of the first half of the 20th century. With this, we contribute
to the studies that have set out to explore one of Labarca?s most unknown
areas: her literature. Specifically, it traces the spirit that runs through
these texts, emphasizing the typification of discourses, characters and
social contexts that allow sustaining the proposal of analyzing this prose
from the point of view of criollismo. Indeed, the results show the presence
of several characteristics of this trend, such as the presence of the
peripheral or marginal element, the traveler as protagonist or the
enhancement of local customs. It is concluded that Labarca?s lyrics dialogue
with the proposals of Chilean criollismo, although they are also inspired by
other aesthetic and ideological proposals of her time.