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

 

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Bibliografiset tiedot
Tekijä: Hernández Campos, Ronald Gerardo
Aineistotyyppi: artículo original
Tila:Versión publicada
Julkaisupäivä:2024
Kuvaus: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.
Maa:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisaatio:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Kieli:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/60695
Linkit:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/60695
Sanahaku:clothing
representation
gender
comparative literature
subjetctivity
vestimenta
representación
género
literatura comparada
subjetividad