About masquerades and costumes in “Los celosos” by Silvina Ocampo

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف: Mengolini, Clara
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2024
الوصف:In this article, I will analyze the short story “Los celosos” (1988) by the Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo. In this story, the protagonist is a woman named Irma Peinate who uses a great deal of wigs, false eyelashes, high heels, and makeup to satisfy her husband. One day, her husband sees her without any accessories and does not recognize her. I propose that the sacrifice the woman undergoes is a kind of “masquerade” of femininity. This masquerade is to be accepted by her husband, but also by a society that aspires to the prototype of European beauty. The theories put forward by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1953), Luce Irigaray in The Sex Which is Not One (1985), and “Masquerade Reconsidered: Further Thoughts on the Female Spectator” (1989) by Mary Anne Doane have been central to examining the concept of “feminine masquerade.”
البلد:Portal de Revistas UNA
المؤسسة:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
اللغة:Español
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/20776
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/repertorio/article/view/20776
كلمة مفتاحية:Argentina
Silvina Ocampo
short stories
mask
gender
femininity
identity
theater
performance
cuentos
máscara
género
feminidad
identidad
teatro
patriarcado