Transcorporalidad neovictoriana: Narrando el cuerpo de Julia Pastrana

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Lin Elinor Pettersson

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La fascinación por Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) dentro del neo-victorianismo se debe en gran parte a su trágica historia y explotación extrema, sobre todo por parte de su mánager/marido Theodore Lent. Su carrera como freak excedió su muerte cuando su cuerpo fue embalsamado y llevado de gira por Europa – un espectáculo macabro que duraría hasta finales del siglo XX. A pesar de ser repatriada y enterrada en 2013, la historia de Pastrana sigue cautivándonos en el siglo XXI. Este ensayo examina como el cuerpo de Pastrana sigue siendo imaginado en la bioficción neo-victoriana analizando las dos novelas Julia Pastrana (2007) de Sandy Olson y Julian Fenech, y The Orphans of the Carnival (2016) de Carol Birch a través de la perspectiva de transcorporeality (Alaimo, 2010). Pretendemos ofrecer una lectura actualizada de como las representaciones interdisciplinares de Pastrana atraviesan tres siglos, convirtiendo su cuerpo en un texto narrado a través de múltiples discursos científicos y culturales. Para ese fin, el eje teórico que sustenta el análisis se basa en teoría feminista sobre el cuerpo que se centra en sus características fluidas, dinámicas y móviles, y que analiza las orientaciones e intersecciones multi- e interdisciplinares del cuerpo.

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Pettersson, L. E. (2023). Transcorporalidad neovictoriana: Narrando el cuerpo de Julia Pastrana. Cultura, Lenguaje Y Representación, 30, 207–221. https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.6837
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Lin Elinor Pettersson, Universidad de Málaga

Department of English, French and German Philology, 

University of Málaga 

Avda Cervantes 2, 29071Málaga. España.

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