Marginalidad y sujetos no heterosexuales en narrativa y cine de Argentina y Uruguay
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2009
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The main objective of this master's thesis is to study the treatment of non-heterosexual subjects in filmic and literary texts. The central question of this work is to determine if those subjects are represented as marginal or not. The answer to that question is elaborated through the study of four texts: Diego Lerman's film Tan de Repente (Suddenly, 2002), two short stories by Cristina Peri Rossi "El testigo" and "La semana mas maravillosa de nuestras vidas," both part of the anthology Desastres intimos (1997), and finally, Ana Maria Shua's novel La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). In each text, the position of the non-heterosexual subject in the narrative structure, in particular the lesbian and travesti, is analyzed on the basis of Gino Germani's research on marginality. This study uses the concept of marginality, which originated in the human sciences, to draw the conclusion that although the texts analyzed carry out a critique of marginalization processes, as ones that seek to silence nonheterosexual subjects, the texts are uneasy in that they fail to represent subjects that, by assuming their sexuality and becoming independent, manage to gain some sort of agency.
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Fouqueray, C. (2009). Marginalidad y sujetos no heterosexuales en narrativa y cine de Argentina y Uruguay (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2668