“Distinguished Ladies” and the Doctrine of Womanhood: Auto-surveillance and Auto-performance in Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata
This essay reads Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata as form of auto-performative ‘anti-manual’ which employs a range of autobiographical forms and functions in protest of codes of womanhood published in an actual manual of women’s con-duct authored by Augusto Pinochet’s First Lady and enforced by...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Groningen Press
2017-10-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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| Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31493 |