Performing the gender. The representation of violence against women in Esa extraña forma de pasión, by Susana Torres Molina
In this paper, we propose a discursive analysis of the play Esa extraña forma de pasión, by Susana Torres Molina. The analysis focuses on the scene called ‘Sunset’, which depicts the sexual violence perpetrated against a kidnapped women by a genocide, during the latest Argentinean dictatorship. This...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humandiades. Instituto de Letras
2025
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| Sumario: | In this paper, we propose a discursive analysis of the play Esa extraña forma de pasión, by Susana Torres Molina. The analysis focuses on the scene called ‘Sunset’, which depicts the sexual violence perpetrated against a kidnapped women by a genocide, during the latest Argentinean dictatorship. This work studies the so called grey spaces of rape (Hercovich, 1997), the gender performativity (Butler, 1990) performed by the character as a strategy to mitigate oppression (Rodó-Zárate, 2021), an oppression that represents the final link in the dictatorship’s systematic plan to punish activist women, in accordance with the regime’s gender ideology. As colophon, this play is put in conversation with an issue of the play Ya vas a ver (2015) by Torres Molina, which presents a woman’s performance as a defense mechanism in the face of imminent rape. The theoretical framework is grounded in gender studies and memory studies in Latin America. |
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