It sees and is seen: Scopic metaphor in El perro de la escribana by María Luisa Mendoza

Mariana Libertad Suárez

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Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the novel "El perro de la escribana" (1982) by Maria Luisa Mendoza, a text in which arbitrary and subject's gaze will become basic tools where national, cultural and gender identities take root. In this book, its past depends only on the symbolic authority of those speeches outlining the memory.

Translated title of the contributionVer y ser visto: La metáfora de la mirada en el perro de la escribana, de María Luisa Mendoza
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)71-84
Number of pages14
JournalAlpha
Issue number33
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Identity
  • Maria Luisa Mendoza
  • Memory
  • Scopic
  • Subjectivity

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