Politics of abjection, community and transorority in Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas

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  • Sarah Valentín Sánchez University of Alabama, USA

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https://doi.org/10.7203/diablotexto.15.27143

Keywords:

Transexuality, Coming-of-age novel, autofiction, abjection, transfeminism, sorority, empathy, community, posthumanism, social justice.

Abstract

In light of the policies of abjection (Purvis, 2019), my essay demonstrates how Las malas (2019), by Camila Sosa Villada, employs an aesthetic of abjection to shake the reader with the purpose of increasing empathy towards subjects perceived as marginal or monstrous. Through the appropriation of the abject, her autofictional coming-of-age novel resignifies the trans condition and proposes other ways of becoming a woman, mothering, and coexisting within kinship systems. It is concluded that behind abjection stands a sort of "trans ethic," or a way of living together based on the display of exponential solidarity, termed transorority in these pages.

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2024-07-02

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Valentín Sánchez, S. (2024). Politics of abjection, community and transorority in Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas. Diablotexto Digital, 15, 84–104. https://doi.org/10.7203/diablotexto.15.27143
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Vol. 15 (2024): Nuevas narrativas femeninas de formación: género y discursos en los márgenes

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