Violences of the Pedestal: Busts, Authors, and Masculinities

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  • Valeria Wagner Université de Genève

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https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.25.27120

Keywords:

Institutional violence, masculinity, busts, authors, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ricardo Piglia.

Abstract

This essay explores the violence inherent in the model of academic masculinity through its representation in the form of professorial busts, through the perspectives of gender and of critiques of individuating figures of knowledge. It then comments on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s analysis of the men of letters of her time (seventeenth century), with the hypothesis that her position as a subaltern and extra-ordinary woman allows her to identify with particular lucidity the risks involved in the «privilege» of being recognized by her male «peers». Finally, an attempt will be made to interrogate the interest in the violence between men in the work of Ricardo Piglia, an author who stands out among others for having foreseen the risk of his own «becoming bust», through the posthumous publication of Los diarios de Emilio Renzi (2016).

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Valeria Wagner, Université de Genève

Valeria Wagner teaches at the Hispanic studies department and in the Comparative literature and Gender studies programs at the University of Geneva, where she obtained a Phd in English literature. Her current research focuses on devices and strategies of value conversion in colonial Hispanic literature and contemporary literatures of migration. She also works on the related genres of the literary chronicle, the documentary and the video essay, and is more generally interested in the articulation of literary forms and political imaginaries. She is author of two monographies, has co-edited several books and has published many articles in journals and book chapters. She co-edits the series «América entre comillas» for Linkgua ediciones.  

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2023-07-18

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Wagner, V. (2023). Violences of the Pedestal: Busts, Authors, and Masculinities. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 25, 19–30. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.25.27120
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