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The debate about the definition of some concepts such as 'popular' and 'mass' culture and the value judgments passed on them has been present throughout the Twentieth Century and has occupied mainly the intellectual thought. It seemed as if the cultivated people of the times perceived those terms as threatening manifestations to their traditional universe. With the purpose of giving a brief account of the landmarks in the history of this cultural phenomenon and attempting to define some delimitative categories to establish constellations of sense, the present work will center upon Ana María Amar Sánchez's thesis (2000). According to her, a corpus of texts belonging to Latin American literature proceeded to the appropriation of mass cultural aspects, while in that very same operation, it separated from it. According to Amar Sánchez, this double-sided effect would have politicized those 'mass' elements and resulted in a type of atypical literature. Our paper intends to expand the corpus of authors studied by Amar Sánchez as well as the genres included in her analysis, bringing in exponents from science fiction, especially Angélica Gorodischer's works. Moreover, we will study how this storyteller from Rosario politicizes those mass contributions by crossing them with gender issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]