Desenmascarando la domesticación de las mujeres
It is clear that literature, apart from its specificity as a work of art constitutes a privileged way of knowledge and it is a key tool in the construction of our identity. Thus, one who possesses the language has the capacity to order the world. This is so because of the interdependence that ex...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de Literaturas Modernas |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=6379 |
| Sumario: | It is clear that literature, apart from its specificity as a work of art
constitutes a privileged way of knowledge and it is a key tool in the
construction of our identity. Thus, one who possesses the language has the
capacity to order the world. This is so because of the interdependence that
exists between world and language: speech refers to a network of power
relations – the patriarchal network – that occurs in society, which is
constructed with words and, precisely because of this, they can be
changed. Then, if the way of retelling it is a way of ordering the world, what
remains ahead would be breaking up with the speech that submits women.
Luce Irigaray (1985) recommends us a way of doing this, by using mimicry,
mimesis or intentional imitation. This allows us to assume deliberately our
subordination as women and take it to an affirmation to be able to thwart
it. Writer Graciela Beatriz Cabal took ownership of Irigaray’s proposal, and
expressed it in her work. This article, then, will focus on the use of the
mimicry in her work. To analyse the use of this resource, we will examine
the story La Señora Planchita (1999).
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