TY - JOUR
T1 - Mothers and nomadic subjects
T2 - Configurations of identity and desire in Laura Restrepo's La novia oscura
AU - Martin, Debbie
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - This article deals with gender and subjectivity in Laura Restrepo's La novia oscura, in which Colombia's insertion into multinational capitalism creates homosocial subcommunities which briefly challenge patriarchal-heterosexual norms. The novel explores the mother-daughter relationship as part of a `lesbian continuum'. Its crucial resymbolization of the mother figure can be seen as a feminist reinscription of foundational fictions, and becomes a counterpoint to a psychic and physical nomadism, which, while echoing tropes of displacement common to the Colombian cultural context, also becomes emblematic of postmodern feminine subjectivity.
AB - This article deals with gender and subjectivity in Laura Restrepo's La novia oscura, in which Colombia's insertion into multinational capitalism creates homosocial subcommunities which briefly challenge patriarchal-heterosexual norms. The novel explores the mother-daughter relationship as part of a `lesbian continuum'. Its crucial resymbolization of the mother figure can be seen as a feminist reinscription of foundational fictions, and becomes a counterpoint to a psychic and physical nomadism, which, while echoing tropes of displacement common to the Colombian cultural context, also becomes emblematic of postmodern feminine subjectivity.
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UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/20467628
M3 - Article
SN - 0026-7937
VL - 103
SP - 113-128+310
JO - Modern Language Review (MLR)
JF - Modern Language Review (MLR)
IS - 1
ER -