Gender at its limits: the erotic and the political in fictional Mexican and Brazilian 20th century texts

Mexico;Brazil;Eroticism;Gender;Sexuality

Martinez, Lily

关键词: Mexico;    Brazil;    Eroticism;    Gender;    Sexuality;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This dissertation analyzes the representation of the erotic and sexuality in works ofMexican and Brazilian fiction in the twentieth century. I examine how the erotic motif influencesthe construction of gender and sexuality. Erotic representations apart from the surface function ofdisplaying what is aesthetically pleasing also have the possibility to transform or, at a minimum,disturb gender norms. By analyzing gender, my objective is to show how fluid gender identitiesare, and how the erotic motif can also have political implications by surfacing feminist andactivist ideologies. Most importantly, however, by closely analyzing how the erotic has beenmobilized in political terms, I am able to observe how radical authors have become in rewritingthe female body and erotic desires. Some of the texts under analysis are Gabriela Cravo eCanela by Jorge Amado, Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda by Sabina Berman, Eu Tu Elesdirected by Andrucha Waddington, among others.