Effeminate proto-gay bodies: queer cultural subjectivities in construction. La traición de Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig

  • Jordi Medel-Bao Université Lumière Lyon 2

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2019-2332

Keywords:

Queer, protohomosexual, biopolitics, autofiction, Manuel Puig

Abstract

This article aims at defining what we understand by a gay cultural subjectivity, and endeavours to apply this concept to the experience that an effeminate proto-homosexual child experiences when building his own subjectivity which starts from the difference. In other words, we mean a subjectivity that inscribes him in a marginal alterity. Next, the article reviews the manner in which this theoretical view has crystallized in the work of some Latin American authors towards the figure of the "loca", to focus more specifically on the character of Toto, Manuel Puig's autofictional mask in The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth (1968). We conclude by proposing, from the queer Utopia, a path able to deactivate what Michel Foucault calls "disciplination of bodies" imposed by biopolitics.

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Author Biography

Jordi Medel-Bao, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Profesor titular en la Université Lumière- Lyon 2. Doctor en estudios ibéricos y mediterráneos (Université Lumière-Lyon 2) y en Teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada (Universitat de Barcelona). Sus investigaciones se centran en el dominio de los Estudios de Género, más concretamente en los estudios gays, lesbianos y queer. Destaca su tesis doctoral “La literatura queer de Manuel Puig como seducción socio-política”.

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Published

2019-09-02

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Medel-Bao, J. (2019). Effeminate proto-gay bodies: queer cultural subjectivities in construction. La traición de Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig. Anclajes , 23(3), 11–22. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2019-2332

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Vol. 23 No. 3 (2019): September-December

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