Lía Dressed as the World: Notes about the Transgression-Abjection Phenomenon on Inés Arredondo's “The Nocturnal Butterflies”

“Las mariposas nocturnas” is a short story by Inés Arredondo originally published in 1979 in the collection of stories called Río subterráneo[1]. This article explores, from a semiotic perspective, and using gender as an analytic category, how the identity and the subjectivities construct Lía as a l...

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Autores: García Bojórquez, Socorro, Araoz Robles, María Edith
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx:article/668
Acceso en línea:https://estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx/index.php/eg/article/view/668
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:subjetividades
transgresión
abyección
performatividad
poder
subjectivities
transgression
abjection
performativity
power
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Sumario:“Las mariposas nocturnas” is a short story by Inés Arredondo originally published in 1979 in the collection of stories called Río subterráneo[1]. This article explores, from a semiotic perspective, and using gender as an analytic category, how the identity and the subjectivities construct Lía as a literary character. Our aim is to explore the stylistic resources appropriated by the author to develop a transgressive female character within a socio-cultural context of the early twentieth century. This raises questions such as: How does Lía's identity configuration function? Ontologically, how does the transformation of a female character develop? Which sociocultural model is she responding to?   [1] The collection of stories has been published in English as Underground River and other stories. This article examines the story “The Nocturnal Butterflies”.