Naslov
The Question of Violence in Luisa Valenzuela's Fiction

Autori
Lovrinović, Vedrana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences 'On Violence'

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.09.2013. - 07.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Luisa Valenzuela, 'A Change of Weapons', 'Simetrías', master-slave dichotomy, 'objet a'

Sažetak
Luisa Valenzuela, the renowned contemporary Argentinean writer, dealt with subjects of violence and oppression during the historical episode known as Dirty War, which occurred in Argentina during the 1970s. The central point of interest of this paper will be a feminist reading of two of her collections of stories, “A Change of Weapons” and “Simetrías”, focusing on issues of female oppression by structures of power, primarily embodied in ideological apparatuses of the Argentinean state of that period. These stories deal with repression, subjugation and violence emerging not only out of totalitarian regime in question but also out of wider cultural frame, primarily in regard to the construction of gender through language, itself structuring the appurtenant social order. This reading will be based upon Hegelian dichotomy of master and slave, in regard to issues of dominance and subjugation, further developing this subject upon Lacan’s reading of the dialectical relations, emphasizing the desire for “missing object”, i.e. “object a” (in regard to Lacan’s theory of sexuality according to which female is necessarily construed as the lacking Other). Thus, the female Other is simultaneously lacking in as well as desiring authority, language and power constituting the dominant male discourse, which underlines symbolic relations of power in Valenzuela’s fiction.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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