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

 

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Yazar: Mengolini, Clara
Materyal Türü: artículo original
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Yayın Tarihi:2024
Diğer Bilgiler: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.”
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Anahtar Kelime:Argentina
Silvina Ocampo
short stories
mask
gender
femininity
identity
theater
performance
cuentos
máscara
género
feminidad
identidad
teatro
patriarcado