Estudios de género: la sexualidad, lo femenino y la femeneidad. Espacio urbano y apropiación queer en la narrativa argentina contemporánea:
Batido de trolo (2012) de Naty Menstrual y La gira (2012) de Martín Villagarcía
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14409/culturas.v0i12.7799Keywords:
21 st century Argentine narrative, urban space, queer studies, production and appropriation of spaceAbstract
The article focuses on the narrative of two contemporary Argentine writers —Naty Menstrual and Martín Villagarcía— and on the ways their texts showcase queer appropriation of urban space within the city of Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 21 st century. The article uses theoretical concepts such as Henri Lefebvre’s production of space, Michel Foucault’s heterotopy, and Dianne Chisholm’s queer spaces/constellations to show that in the narrative of Menstrual and Villagarcía abstract urban space is subverted by queer characters who appropriate said space in order to construct new forms of bodily and sexual pleasure, and, also, to reconstitute their own subjectivity. Furthermore, their texts present certain problems related to the process of urban space appropriation by signaling the emergence of discrimination, commercialization, and automatization of pleasure that lead towards the alienation of the queer subject.
