THE TRANSVESTITE BODY AS NEO-BAROQUE LITTER AND WEAVE IN SEVERO SARDUY’S NOVEL COBRA (1972)
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Severo Sarduy, Lacan, cubanbaroque, letterAbstract
In the current work we will analyze the role of the transvestite body as litter and weave in Cuban writer Severo Sarduy's novel Cobra (1972). First, we will present a brief differentiation among Alejo Carpentier's, Lezama Lima’s, and Sarduy's baroque, from some conceptual elements given by Sarduy about the neo-baroque and the body in his essays La Simulación (1982), Escrito sobre un cuerpo (1968) and Barroco (1974). Subsequently, we will show how all along the novel the status of the main character’s body turns into a place of litter, from Jacques Lacan’s conceptualization about the letter (lettre) as litter in the seminar Le Sinthome (1975.)
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