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La bruja andina como motor de la sexualidad y feminidad en el cuento "Las voladoras" de Mónica Ojeda (2020)

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    Bolognesi, Sara
    Main Author:
    Bolognesi, Sara

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    Bukhalovskaya, Alena

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2022
    In:
    Cuadernos de Aleph ISSN 2174-8713 Nº. 15, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Formas de la heterodoxia en la literatura hispánica. Desafíos al orden desde los márgenes), pags. 75-95
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    This article proposes an approach to the story «Las voladoras», which opens the homonymous collection of short stories (Páginas de Espuma, 2020) by the Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, 1988), focusing on the landscapes framed within the Andean Gothic genre and the configuration of the story from the point of view of the fantastic one. Specifically, this work analyses the figure of the «voladora», the famous witch that populates the myths of the Andes Mountains, which establishes a deep bond with the protagonist of the story, who makes her transition to adulthood through contact with the body of this creature. The expression of femininity and sexuality of both is configured as dissident and transgressive, so that it escapes the heteropatriarchal intelligibility, embodied in the ambivalent figure of the girl's parents.


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