Transvestite Pride: Forms of ‘hontologie’ in ‘Las malas’ by Camila Sosa Villada
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https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.22.26063Keywords:
Transvestism, Shame, Pride, Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada, Argentine Literature
Abstract
When approaching the work of Jean Genet, Didier Eribon (2004) analyzes the way in which the insulting imprecation inscribes shame in the body of the designated individual but, in turn, it is this awareness of abjection that provides the energy with which the injured person can erect a minority subjectivity that they proudly display. In the course of this operation, the author makes use of a word coined by Jacques Lacan, “hontologie”.
The objective of this paper is to review the particular modes of shame of the transvestite identity in the “experiential narrative” (Arfuch 2007) of the trans writer and playwright Camila Sosa Villada, and the process of transformation towards some form of pride. For this occasion, I will take her novel, which is also an autofiction, Las malas (2019). However, it is important to keep in mind for this task, as Eribon points out, that abjection and pride are not part of a dialectical synthesis, but rather an unstable coexistence of opposites in which the negative element, shame, marks the person in all situations and is always there as their own past.
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Jose Javier Maristany, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Universidada Nacional de San Martín
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