Clothing, Biopolitics and the Representation of Sexual Dissidence in Literature and Film: A Comparative Analysis

 

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Autor: Hernández Campos, Ronald Gerardo
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data wydania:2024
Opis:Studies on film and its relationship with literature are among the most prolific fields of comparative research. This article presents a comparative analysis of the film The Mudge Boy (2003) and the short stories “Encaje” and “La mujer que, en mí, dormía” from the collection Atrevidas: relatos polifónicos de mujeres trans (2019) by using methodological tools from thematology and film semiotics based on concepts of clothing, gender, and identity, and the way gender identities are represented through the "dress" that each character wears. Both Burke’s film and Schumacher’s texts employ "dress" as a biopolitical mechanism (Retana, 2015) that controls the characters' lives (Foucault, 2007) in relation to the bipolar heteronormativity (Torras, 2015; Butler, 2006). These three cultural products evidence the representation of a dissident gender identity, where the sign of clothing exerts control over the relationships between their bodies, gender identities, and the social mandates expected by others of the protagonists.
Kraj:Portal de Revistas UCR
Instytucja:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Język:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/60695
Dostęp online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/60695
Słowo kluczowe:clothing
representation
gender
comparative literature
subjetctivity
vestimenta
representación
género
literatura comparada
subjetividad