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Género del Discurso y Género Líquido. Identidades y Mito en un Cuento Cinematográfico de Sergio Fernández

 

ABSTRACT

The processes of mythification in mass culture have proven particularly complex when it comes to women. The story “450 East 52 St.” (1983), by the Mexican writer Sergio Fernández, is an example of a global mythification of an American movie star. The story portrays Greta Garbo's proverbial androgyny as a factor of “aberrant desire” that implies gender confusion; the alteration of biological instinct; and the alternation between masculine, feminine, and neutral identities. These qualities are not created by the actress but are perceived by her fans within the sphere of mythification. The Greta of Fernández's story represents the idea of gender fluidity before it was formally conceptualized.

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Antonio Portela holds the Doctor Europaeus in Language, Culture, and Society from Ca' Foscari University of Venezia and the PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca. He is Associate Professor of Spanish language at the University of Burgos and editor and executive secretary of the journal Monograma: Revista Iberoamericana de Cultura y Pensamiento. He is also a poet.

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Este trabajo se ha realizado en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación “FELICIDAD Y LITERATURA: EFICACIA SOCIAL DEL DISCURSO LITERARIO” (financiado por la Junta de Castilla y León, Programa I B, 2016), y del contrato “Investigación en lengua, literatura, cine y cultura contemporáneos y su relación con la tradición,” firmado con la Fundación Iberoamericana de las Industrias Culturales y Creativas y la Oficina de Transferencia de Resultados de Investigación de la Universidad de Burgos (2017–20, contrato tipo Art. 83).

1. Esta visión, sin duda, recuerda la epifanía de la belleza en mitad del gentío del metro que se describe en el poema “In a Station of the Metro” de Ezra Pound: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough” (CitationPound). (12) Tanto el poema de Pound como el texto de Fernández recogen la idea de que en los espacios deshumanizados de tránsito el sujeto contemporáneo sólo puede vislumbrar la hermosura como acontecimiento cercano a la teofanía.

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