Clara Gardenia Otero, Palmira Parés y el Feminismo Queer de Manuel Ramos Otero

Authors

Dinorah Cortes-Velez, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

spa

Publication Date

Summer 2018

Publisher

Centro, Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Source Publication

CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Source ISSN

1538-6279

Abstract

This essay examines the short stories “Romance de Clara Gardenia Otero” and “El cuento de la Mujer del Mar” to reveal the way in which Ramos Otero’s writing adopts the sign of the feminine as an empowering archetype. These stories make allies of the queer and the feminine in order to reject bourgeois feminism. This brand of feminism does not manage to escape the patriarchal dichotomy and puts the individualist project before a broader decolonizing goal. By posing these female characters of mythical stature as his alter egos, Ramos Otero departs from the frame of reference of subalternity ethnographies in order to dismantle the normalizing coercion of a heterosexist society that silences marginal voices.

Comments

Published version. Centro Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer 2018): 68-87. Publisher link. © 2018 Centro Journal. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Cortes-Velez, Dinorah, "Clara Gardenia Otero, Palmira Parés y el Feminismo Queer de Manuel Ramos Otero" (2018). Spanish Languages and Literatures Research and Publications. 86.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/span_fac/86