"In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico
This paper shows how a female body, considered a representative of its nation’s ideology, is often the main target of political violence and violations. Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America uses the sexual frustrations of all its women characters to reflect the violent physical and mental pressur...
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| Keyword: | Literatura anglosajona Literatura norteamericana Teatro Cuerpo femenino Sexualidad Metáfora Ideología |
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| description | This paper shows how a female body, considered a representative of its nation’s ideology, is often the main target of political violence and violations. Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America uses the sexual frustrations of all its women characters to reflect the violent physical and mental pressures of imperial war and its consequent times. Their physical defects signal the hostile times they live in, which are usually reflected on the female body as carrier and displayer of the ideologies and social constructions of the era, turning women’s bodies into representatives of their nation’s sociopolitical ideology. They have their regions’ ideology inscribed on their bodies as physical wounds, making these bodies battlefields on which colonizers and soldiers demonstrate their political muscle. Wallace demonstrates how the female body, through its sexual orientation, its color, its exposure, and its movements and gestures, can tell the whole story of violence and create a drama of great effect |
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| spelling | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico Naomi Wallace's "In the Heart of America": The Portrait of a Woman's Body As an Ideological Text El-Sawy, Amany Mahmoud Literatura anglosajona Literatura norteamericana Teatro Cuerpo femenino Sexualidad Metáfora Ideología This paper shows how a female body, considered a representative of its nation’s ideology, is often the main target of political violence and violations. Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America uses the sexual frustrations of all its women characters to reflect the violent physical and mental pressures of imperial war and its consequent times. Their physical defects signal the hostile times they live in, which are usually reflected on the female body as carrier and displayer of the ideologies and social constructions of the era, turning women’s bodies into representatives of their nation’s sociopolitical ideology. They have their regions’ ideology inscribed on their bodies as physical wounds, making these bodies battlefields on which colonizers and soldiers demonstrate their political muscle. Wallace demonstrates how the female body, through its sexual orientation, its color, its exposure, and its movements and gestures, can tell the whole story of violence and create a drama of great effect Este trabajo muestra cómo un cuerpo femenino, considerado representativo de la ideología de su nación, es a menudo objetivo principal de la violencia y las violaciones políticas. In the Heart of America, de Naomi Wallace, usa las frustraciones sexuales de todos sus personajes femeninos para reflejar las violentas presiones mentales y físicas de la guerra imperial y sus consecuencias. Sus defectos físicos indican los tiempos hostiles en que viven, que a menudo se reflejan en el cuerpo femenino como portador y estandarte de las ideologías y las construcciones sociales de la época, convirtiendo a los cuerpos de las mujeres en representantes de la ideología sociopolítica de su nación. Tienen la ideología de sus regiones inscrita sobre el cuerpo como heridas físicas, convirtiendo a esos cuerpos en camp os de batalla donde los colonizadores y los soldados demuestran su potencia política. Wallace demuestra cómo el cuerpo femenino, mediante su orientación sexual, su color, su exhibición y sus movimientos y gestos, puede narrar toda la historia de la violencia y crear un drama de gran efecto. http://institucional.us.es/revistas/estudios/16/art_3.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11441/18376 |
| spellingShingle | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico El-Sawy, Amany Mahmoud Literatura anglosajona Literatura norteamericana Teatro Cuerpo femenino Sexualidad Metáfora Ideología |
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| title | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| title_full | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| title_fullStr | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| title_full_unstemmed | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| title_short | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| title_sort | "In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico |
| topic | Literatura anglosajona Literatura norteamericana Teatro Cuerpo femenino Sexualidad Metáfora Ideología |
| topic_facet | Literatura anglosajona Literatura norteamericana Teatro Cuerpo femenino Sexualidad Metáfora Ideología |
| url | http://institucional.us.es/revistas/estudios/16/art_3.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11441/18376 |