“Do You Know Your Place?” Displacing of Revolutionary Subjectivity in Reinaldo Arenas
This article analyzes the many forms of subjectivity developed in the short stories book Con los ojos cerrados (1972) and the novel El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas (1975) written by the cuban Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It is proposed that these texts displace the assumptions of the officia...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Valladolid
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Castilla: Estudios de Literatura |
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| Online Access: | http://localhost/phppro/ojs3nuevokk/index.php/castilla/article/view/231 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the many forms of subjectivity developed in the short stories book Con los ojos cerrados (1972) and the novel El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas (1975) written by the cuban Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It is proposed that these texts displace the assumptions of the official discourse, particularly the idea that the common locus founded in 1959 is the free territory for an ideal and morally superior new man . Arena´s writing, on the contrary, escapes from all of these beliefs by eroding identity boundaries, betraying every semiotic system rules and assuming errancy as the conditions for the emergency of a revolutionary subjectivity.
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| ISSN: | 1989-7383 |