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Capítulos de libros
Título:
Spatial Struggles: Re-assertion of (sexual) Identities in the Wild
Libro:
Perfiles Estadounidenses
Editorial:
BMPress
Referencias:
Año: 2013; p. 103 - 109
Resumen:
Following renowned philosopher and literary critic George Steiner, it can be said that the multiplicity of human languages allows humans, both men and women, to construct their realities and to articulate them according to their views of the world "each language construes the facticity of existential reality, of the given in its own specific way" (1996: 150). In considering this view of language, we are considering not only the multiplicity of actual languages, but also the multiplicity of discourses given in any community. Language, in this sense, is understood not merely as the expression of a reality, but rather as the strategic medium through which each individual and community represents his or her reality. This paper aims to compare the existential realities described by two American authors, Tom Robbins and Annie Proulx, who in their works have presented alternative modes of living, perceiving and experiencing realities which oppose, to a certain extent, the statu quo of a given community at a given time. Tom Robbins in Even Cowgirls get the Blues, a novel edited in 1976, and Annie Proulx in her short story "Brokeback Mountain" published as part of the collection of short stories Close Range: Wyoming Stories in 1999, explore the lives of characters in search of an alternative existential reality to the one presented by their immediate contexts. Their modes of perceiving and experiencing reality put forward the question of the subaltern, of the Other- and the spaces these groups are given or allowed, and the spaces they dispute.
