Trashed Beauty: Abjection and Burned Females in Mariana Enríquez's The Things We Lost in the Fire

• Yuliana M. Ramos Orta ^[1]
  1. [1] Boston University

     Boston University

     City of Boston, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: REGS: Revista de estudios de género y sexualidades = Journal of gender and sexuality studies, ISSN-e 2637-997X, ISSN 2637-9961, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women's Cultural Production), págs. 127-140
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Things We Lost in the Fire presents a wave of femicides in Argentina, committed by men burning and deforming women, leaving them to die or to become disabled. As a protest to these femicides, a group of women devises a vendetta by resignifying a past ritual: they start burning themselves at the stake. With their disabled bodies, these women disrupt the patriarchal expectations about beauty and femininity. Using Kristeva's abjection theory alongside disability study theories, I will demonstrate how “trashed” beauty and disability can represent a liberation from heteronormative aesthetic expectations, as well as how these bodies reimagine female identity.