Sobre historia, sexualidades y significados culturales. A propósito de la novela Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes de Lucía Etxebarria
Abstract
Abstract:
The article explores the relationship between history and literature, and the way in which the latter contributes to constructing the common sense of an era and to disseminating certain cultural meanings about both individual and group identities.
Based on this hypothesis, the novel, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes by Lucía Etxebarria is an exceptional example to analyse, from a culture-focused methodological viewpoint, how the discourses about bisexuality or lesbianism are related to gender attributions, while trying to construct new models of feminine identities for its main characters.
Eventually, this narrative attempt does not manage to carry out an in-depth reformulation of the dichotomies that are traditionally attributed to the masculinity/femininity or heterosexuality/homosexuality binarisms in their most classical version.
Key words: history; literature; bisexuality; lesbianism; gender attributions; non-standard sexualities.
Resumen:
El artículo explora la relación entre la historia y la literatura y la forma en la que esta última contribuye a construir el sentido común de una época y a difundir determinados significados culturales en torno a las identidades personales y colectivas.
Desde estos presupuestos, el análisis de la novela Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes de Lucía Etxebarria se constituye en un campo privilegiado para analizar, desde una perspectiva metodológica centrada en lo cultural, cómo los discursos en torno a la bisexualidad o al lesbianismo se relacionan en la novela con las atribuciones de género, tratando de construir nuevos modelos de identidades femeninas para sus principales protagonistas.
Un intento narrativo que, finalmente, no logra reformular en profundidad las dicotomías tradicionalmente atribuidas a los binarismos masculinidad/ feminidad o heterosexualidad/homosexualidad en su versión más clásica.
Palabras clave: historia; literatura; bisexualidad; lesbianismo; atribuciones de género; sexualidades no normativas.
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