| Titre | Identidad y discurso contranormativos en El vampiro de la colonia Roma de Luis Zapata | |
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| Auteur | Bertha Ladrón de Guevara | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 4, 2011 Stéréotypes, tabous, mythes | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Mexique: mythes, tabous, stéréotypes au carrefour des identités |
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| Résumé anglais |
This article analyzes the discourse and identity of Adonis García, the main character in the seminal work of Luis Zapata, El vampiro de la colonia Roma (1979), as two main venues used by its author to express a strong criticism against the institutionalized practice of gender relations in Mexico at the time of the publication of this foundational novel. The identity of Adonis García has a three dimensional subversion in the sense that he is not only openly homosexual, but also a male whore that frankly accepts he enjoys this kind of work. In order to represent this subversion in the hegemonic gender system, Zapata breaks with the official discourse and deconstructs its language, setting in its place a contra hegemonic discourse. Thus, identity and discourse in this novel are interwoven questioning the marginality of a gay man as represented in the official language and subverting its mechanisms of power. In the end, Adonis García builds trough this denigrated status a libertarian and festive strategy of life. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/1911 |
