Transitioning Through Desire: Ana María Moix's Lesbian Textualities
Abstract
Moix's work is wrought with an awareness of a fundamental lack, a poststructuralist, postmodern critique of modernism's faith in originality and wholeness. This awareness and critique is central in Julia and ¿Walter, por que te fuiste? The texts consciously work in tandem to express themselves and to define lesbian desire: in both novels, lesbian desire controls the narrative thread. Yet, in accordance with Moix' s generation and coupled with a post-structuralist, postmodern critique of identity, lesbianism is not found in any one place in either text. As the novels weave together, they reveal a process of signification, the very process by which incomplete sexual subjectivity reveals itself as such. Moix's novels reflect the limits of non-normative desire in the midst of the monolith that presents itself as normative through rigid moral and gender standards. Lesbianism as expressed intertextually and metatextually in these two works speaks to the shift between the Francoist modern subject and the postmodern subject in 1960s and 1970s Spain.Downloads
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