The present study aims to illustrate the route towards the sexual appropriation of the female body in the literary fiction of the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi (1957 -). The case of Yo-Yo Boing!, belonging to the Puerto Rican diaspora literature, problematizes the perception of the body in connection with the (de)construction of a social identity. First, an overview of feminist issues in the Carribbean will lead us to better understand the choice made in the representation of the human body by the writer. Later, we will look at the self-eroti cism generated by the protagonist’s body, both source of pleasure and disgust, and on the way in which it allows to upset the male au thority over the female corporality. Thus, the radicalization of the en joyment and sexualization of the female body, in a context like that of Puerto Rico, where hybridism is the dominant, becomes not only a reappropriation of biopolitical freedom, but a foreshadow of the gender binarism’s deconstruction toward a queer era.
Pour un érotisme kitsch dans "Yo-Yo Boing!". Bouleverser la corporalité dans les rôles sociaux
Santa Vanessa Cavallari
2023-01-01
Abstract
The present study aims to illustrate the route towards the sexual appropriation of the female body in the literary fiction of the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi (1957 -). The case of Yo-Yo Boing!, belonging to the Puerto Rican diaspora literature, problematizes the perception of the body in connection with the (de)construction of a social identity. First, an overview of feminist issues in the Carribbean will lead us to better understand the choice made in the representation of the human body by the writer. Later, we will look at the self-eroti cism generated by the protagonist’s body, both source of pleasure and disgust, and on the way in which it allows to upset the male au thority over the female corporality. Thus, the radicalization of the en joyment and sexualization of the female body, in a context like that of Puerto Rico, where hybridism is the dominant, becomes not only a reappropriation of biopolitical freedom, but a foreshadow of the gender binarism’s deconstruction toward a queer era.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
