Racismo And Gender Violence In “Biografía” De María Fernanda Ampuero
An Analysis Through the Theft of Enjoyment of the National-Thing
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https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.6687Keywords:
María Fernanda Ampuero, racism, gender violence, Thing, enjoyment, Ecuatorian literatureAbstract
The short story “Biografía” by the Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero, portrays the experience of illegal migration from the point of view of a woman. Discriminated both as a woman and as an illegal migrant, the protagonist must face racism and gender violence daily. This article reviews some of Slavoj Žižek's concepts such as Thing and enjoyment (jouissance) to explain racism as the improbable but no less frightening threat to the national-Thing. Although Ampuero's text is a fiction, it offers a unique opportunity to understand racism as a kind of castration complex where the “other” becomes a permanent threat to enjoyment.
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