Transgressive Body Released In Luisa Valenzuela's “Ceremonies Of Rejection”
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https://doi.org/10.37646/xihmai.v9i17.236Keywords:
body, violence, female strength, Argentine dictatorship, repressionAbstract
In this paper I analyze the way in which the writer Luisa Valenzuela questions some practices imposed on female beauty by Amanda, the protagonist of her short story "Ceremonias de rechazo". In it, the author shows how the protagonist refuses to tolerate different forms of violence to which the attempt to drive your partner loving, a guy "sinister" nicknamed "El Coyote".
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