Sexing the Nation: A Reading of Three Mexican Novels
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The essay is a reading of Carlos Fuentes’ three novels using primarily the theorizing of Doris Sommer on Latin American fiction. The approach is to render a deconstructive analysis in the light of nationalist conception of sexuality, and to expose the very sexual allegories in forging a concept of the nation. While attempting to explore the ways patriarchal meanings are carefully embedded in the text through narrative strategies and literary techniques, the essay also brings to fore the paradoxes of using female protagonists in order to subvert accusations of masculine literary presence. It is also questioned in the text how and why prized “nationalist” novels such as Fuentes’ heavily invest on sexual couplings and metaphorical meanings ascribed to specifically heterosexual relationships. In conclusion, while these novels do not categorically belong to Latin America’s “foundational” literature because of their obvious self–conscious modernism, they are neither deconstructive in terms of nationalist formulations on sex and love.
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The essay is a reading of Carlos Fuentes’ three novels using primarily the theorizing of Doris Sommer on Latin American fiction. The approach is to render a deconstructive analysis in the light of nationalist conception of sexuality, and to expose the very sexual allegories in forging a concept of the nation. While attempting to explore the ways patriarchal meanings are carefully embedded in the text through narrative strategies and literary techniques, the essay also brings to fore the paradoxes of using female protagonists in order to subvert accusations of masculine literary presence. It is also questioned in the text how and why prized “nationalist” novels such as Fuentes’ heavily invest on sexual couplings and metaphorical meanings ascribed to specifically heterosexual relationships. In conclusion, while these novels do not categorically belong to Latin America’s “foundational” literature because of their obvious self–conscious modernism, they are neither deconstructive in terms of nationalist formulations on sex and love.
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