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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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“Climbing the stairs backwards: the construction of the Other in: The Place without Limits by José Donoso. The case of Japonesita”

Authors

  • Ana Figueroa Assistant Professor Penn State University, LV
No. 14 (2011): Nomadías

Abstract

The very look of the description of Japonesita brothel, tells the reader the deterioration with space to be found. The mere fact that the brothel is sinking, magnifies the sense of loss -is a space that headed to extinction. The town itself is an area builded by opposition: the house of Don Alejo and vines are climbing into the sky and, at the same time, the brothel is sinking. This creates an aesthetic of “leakage” that involves a change of signs and social order. As the brothel sink, it moves to another area of the world: the more you move the vines to the people, the more they will impose a change of signs. My proposal is to seek new ways to view this Donsian aesthetics of Olives, hence my climb the ladder backwards is to show how the representation of the forgotten characters of this novel: Pancho and Japonesita (usually stereotyped as deformed and decadent), acquire a different reality. Thus, the monsters in this novel become a positive representation. My reading tends to overturn the view that a Prosperous has about Caliban. The place without limits allows the main appearance of the excluded and ignored by the institution of the patriarchal order / landowner / ubiquitous. While everything about the world in Los Olivos that’s includes the transvestite Manuela are considered marginal, in this novel appears to us as part of a patriarchal order

Keywords:

Identity, Gender, Masculinity, Monsters, Body, Incest

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Figueroa, A. (2011). “Climbing the stairs backwards: the construction of the Other in: The Place without Limits by José Donoso. The case of Japonesita”. Nomadías, (14). Retrieved from https://monografiasveterinaria.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/17400
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