The Masculinization and Militarization of the Female Sexualized Body in Zoé Valdés’s Yocandra in the Paradise of NADA
Journal: International Journal of English, Literature and Social Science (Vol.4, No. 4)Publication Date: 2019-07-10
Authors : Mary Louisa Cappelli;
Page : 957-961
Keywords : Cuba; Cuban Revolution; Fidel Castro; Zoé Valdés; sexual violence; Yocandra in the Paradise of NADA; George Bataille; eroticism; body politic.;
Abstract
"Is this a garden or a cemetery? I want a garden. I need a garden. How proud I am to be Cuban! How terrified I am to be Cuban!" declares Yocandra in Zoé Valdés's Yocandra in the Paradise of NADA. In this essay, I interrogate the revolutionary contradictions inscribed on female sexualized bodies showing how women's histories are registered in their scars, each scar representing a historical marker in the body's memory of lived experience. Moreover, I examine how Valdés's narrative fiction reveals how subjugation and exploitation often materialize as sexualized and politicized wounds. The female sexualized and eroticized body works as an allegorical transcript for the toxic masculinization and militarization of the Cuban Revolution.
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