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In Reina Roffé’s Monte de Venus, a lesbian girl, Julia Grade, meets a man at a bar and befriends him. As pals, and “from man to man,” they establish a drinking relationship that ends at the guy’s house where they continue partying. As it gets late, he invites her to sleep over. She agrees and tells us,
Masculinity operates on thresholds and positions women between what is destroyed and what endures. Masculinity is tested from the age of 10 to 14. See articles in (La Prensa, 03/27/2008; END, 06/03/2008 and 23/05/2008). To be a man also means to get a woman pregnant (END, 28/03/2008).
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Reina Roffé. Monte de Venus. Buenos Aires: Astier, 1976.
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Julia Kristeva. “Women’s Time.” Op. Cit.: 61–83.
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Jonathan Littell. The Kindly Ones. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 2009. Charlotte Mandell (Tr). In French Les Beinveillantes, Paris: Gallimard, 2006, From here on all translations are mine (879).
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Littell, Op. Cit.
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David Lynch. Blue Velvet. 1986.
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Julia Kristeva. “Women’s Time,” Op. Cit.
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See Renata Salecl. “Crime as a mode of subjectivization.” The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism. New York, London: Routledge, 1994: 99–111.
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Kristeva. “Women’s Time.” Op. Cit.
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Littell, Op. Cit.
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Eltit, Diamela. El cuarto mundo. Santiago, Chile: Planeta Biblioteca del Sur, 1988.
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“There is no awareness of sexual difference during that period (more accurately: within that disposition), such a ‘father’ is the same as ‘both parents.’ Identification with that ‘father in prehistory,’ ‘that Imaginary Father, is called immediate,’ ‘direct’ (Kristeva, 141). The Portable Kristeva. Kelly Oliver (ed) New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
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Rizio Yohannan Raj. a tale of things timeless. New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2012.
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“The homosexual-maternal facet” described like “A whirl of words, a complete absence of meaning and seeing; it is feeling, displacement, rhythm, sound, flashes, and fantasized clinging to the maternal body as a screen against the plunge” (Kristeva, The Portable Kristeva. 303).
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José Emilio Pachecho, El reposo del fuego. México: Fondo de Cultura, 1966; Jacques Lacán. Ecrits. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
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[Nietzsche: “Esta noche tendré? una madre o dejaré de ser.”
Strindberg: “El sol, madre, el sol.”
P. Eluard: “Hay que pegar a la madre mientras es joven.”
Sí, señora, la madre es un animal carnívoro que ama la vegetación
lujuriosa. A la hora que la parió abre las piernas, ignorante del sentido
de su posición destinada a dar a luz, a tierra, a fuego, a aire,
pero luego una quiere volver a entrar en esa maldita concha,
después de haber intentado nacerse sola sacando mi cabeza por mi
útero (y como no puede, busco morir y entrar en la pestilente guarida de
la oculta ocultadora cuya función es ocultar)
hablo de la concha y hablo de la muerte] (‘Sala de Psicopatología’ Alejandra Pizarnik)
http://www.contranatura.org/literat/biblioteca/Pizarnik-Sala_de_psicopatologia.htm
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Joyce Carol Oates. The Gravedigger’s Daughter. New York, HarperCollins, 2007.
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Rodriguez, I. (2016). In the Living Flesh: Maternities and Masculinities. In: Gender Violence in Failed and Democratic States. Comparative Feminist Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59833-2_6
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