“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams
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Resumo: | Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo intraditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality and homosexuality. The Chicana lesbian, as a matter of survival and motivated by sexual impulses, struggles to surpass the passive role repression assigns to her and refuses to accept the heteronormative rule. In the present paper, I investigate how the narrative strategies and cultural references bring to surface the emotions and experiences that form subjectivity and sexual desire in Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams (1996) and Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings (2003). Such transgressive narrators are of different ages and thus undergoing different maturity processes, but they begin both novels as young Chicana women attempting to explore their sexuality and uncover their own prohibited desires while becoming aware of the patriarchal and machista system in which they are inscribed. Here female sexuality and lesbian desire intertwine. The chosen novels enable a debate on women’s sexual development and exploration and society’s influence, judgement and punishment on female sexuality. Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Carla Trujillo, Emma Pérez and other feminist Chicana critics aid this analysis. |
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“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams“Um desvio no anseio”: Relações entrelaçadas entre gênero, sexualidade e desejo lésbico em What Night Brings de Carla Trujillo e Gulf Dreams de Emma PérezQuestions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo intraditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality and homosexuality. The Chicana lesbian, as a matter of survival and motivated by sexual impulses, struggles to surpass the passive role repression assigns to her and refuses to accept the heteronormative rule. In the present paper, I investigate how the narrative strategies and cultural references bring to surface the emotions and experiences that form subjectivity and sexual desire in Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams (1996) and Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings (2003). Such transgressive narrators are of different ages and thus undergoing different maturity processes, but they begin both novels as young Chicana women attempting to explore their sexuality and uncover their own prohibited desires while becoming aware of the patriarchal and machista system in which they are inscribed. Here female sexuality and lesbian desire intertwine. The chosen novels enable a debate on women’s sexual development and exploration and society’s influence, judgement and punishment on female sexuality. Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Carla Trujillo, Emma Pérez and other feminist Chicana critics aid this analysis.Questões de gênero e sexualidade vêm sendo tratadas como tabu em sociedadestradicionais e conservadoras. Gloria Anzaldúa alega em Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) que “ela [a lésbica de cor] depara-se contra duas proibições morais: sexualidade e homossexualidade”. A Chicana lésbica, como forma de sobrevivência e motivada por impulsos sexuais, batalha para superar o papel social passivo que a repressão atribui a ela e recusa-se a aceitar o sistema heteronormativo. Na presente pesquisa, pretendo investigar como as estratégias narrativas e as referências culturais trazem à superfície emoções e experiências que formam a subjetividade e o desejo sexual em What Night Brings (2003) de Carla Trujillo e Gulf Dreams (1996) de Emma Pérez. Suas narradoras transgressoras são de diferentes idades e processos de maturidade, porém iniciam ambos os romances como jovens Chicanas buscando explorar sua sexualidade e desvendar seus desejos proibidos enquanto se conscientizam do sistema patriarcal e machista no qual estão inseridas. Aqui a sexualidade da mulher e o desejo lésbico se entrelaçam. Ambos os romances possibilitam discussões sobre o desenvolvimento e a exploração sexual e também sobre a influência, julgamento e punição da comunidade com relação à sexualidade da mulher. Escritos de Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Carla Trujillo, Emma Pérez e outras críticas Chicanas feministas auxiliam a pesquisa.Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina2018-11-28info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/5856310.1590/%xRevista Estudos Feministas; Vol. 26 No. 3 (2018)Revista Estudos Feministas; Vol. 26 Núm. 3 (2018)Revista Estudos Feministas; v. 26 n. 3 (2018)1806-95840104-026Xreponame:Revista Estudos Feministasinstname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCenghttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/58563/37918Copyright (c) 2018 Revista Estudos Feministasinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGouvêa, Nathália Araújo Duarte2018-11-28T15:59:17Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/58563Revistahttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/indexPUBhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/oai||ref@cfh.ufsc.br1806-95840104-026Xopendoar:2022-11-21T11:38:44.893842Revista Estudos Feministas - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)true |
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“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams “Um desvio no anseio”: Relações entrelaçadas entre gênero, sexualidade e desejo lésbico em What Night Brings de Carla Trujillo e Gulf Dreams de Emma Pérez |
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Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo intraditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality and homosexuality. The Chicana lesbian, as a matter of survival and motivated by sexual impulses, struggles to surpass the passive role repression assigns to her and refuses to accept the heteronormative rule. In the present paper, I investigate how the narrative strategies and cultural references bring to surface the emotions and experiences that form subjectivity and sexual desire in Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams (1996) and Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings (2003). Such transgressive narrators are of different ages and thus undergoing different maturity processes, but they begin both novels as young Chicana women attempting to explore their sexuality and uncover their own prohibited desires while becoming aware of the patriarchal and machista system in which they are inscribed. Here female sexuality and lesbian desire intertwine. The chosen novels enable a debate on women’s sexual development and exploration and society’s influence, judgement and punishment on female sexuality. Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Carla Trujillo, Emma Pérez and other feminist Chicana critics aid this analysis. |
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