SOURCE: Hardin, Michael. “Inscribing and Incorporating the Marginal: (P)Recreating the Female Artist in Elena Garro's Recollections of Things to Come.” Hispanic Journal 16, no. 1 (spring 1995): 147-59.

In the following essay, Hardin argues that Garro's use of the stone as the framing device and central metaphor in Recollections of Things to Come allows her to foreground the marginalized female and indigenous identities as well as position herself, as a woman writer, at the center of human expressions of artistry.

The Journey has just begun. Seek the meaning of the sacred knowledge. Seek the meaning of cycles within cycles. The stones know. They are the old ones who show the way. They are the ones that speak.—Hunbatz Men

In her essay, “A Room of One's Own,” Virginia Woolf details the problems of a writer without an established tradition: “But whatever effect discouragement and criticism had upon [women's] writing—… that...