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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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AGAINST SUBALTERNITY: RESEMANTIZATION OF THE INTOLERABLE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN THE NEW ISLANDS BY MARÍA LUISA BOMBAL

Authors

  • Alexandra Novoa Romero Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

In the story Las Islas Nuevas by María Luisa Bombal, the woman is represented through a Darstellung (Spivak) that integrates the dreams and desires of the mysterious protagonist. This Darstellung of the oneiric elaborates a sex/gender difference where patriarchal subordination (Segato) is rejected, a practice of decolonization and liberation that brings us closer to a postcolonial ethic (Mignolo). This position becomes even more complex when the story exposes the vision of the man, who tries to elucidate the woman, and observes a monstrous spectacle, a stump on the protagonist's back, an atrophied being, an image created by an intolerable representation (Rancière) that questions the myths held about the image of women.

Keywords:

Darstellen, insubordinación patriarcal, Las Islas Nuevas, María Luisa Bombal.