Life, death in/ from transvestite writing

Authors

  • María Gabriela Onetti Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Keywords:

transvestite writing, death, life, mourning

Abstract

From a deconstructivist perspective, this essay reflects on the life-death oppositional pair. It takes transvestite writing as a vanishing point towards other ways of thinking/inhabiting life and death, thelifethedeath. On this path, the aim is to account for the vital relationship that exists between writing -and in a paradigmatic way, transvestite writing- and death. We understand that writing opens a space-time hiatus that brings the non-present, the absent, the dead. For this we used the book Travesti/ Una Teoría lo Suficientemente Buena by Marlene Wayar and the ongoing dialogues with her friends and partners: Susy Shock, Claudia Rodríguez; and all her/their dead women. In this way, the text rehearses other possible links with death and dead women in/from transvestite writing. In short, we ask ourselves again and again: what to do with a cemetery in our heads, how to elaborate/write the death of our friends, our partners: all avoidable and dreadful deaths?

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Author Biography

  • María Gabriela Onetti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

    National University of Cordoba. Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. School of Letters. Córdoba, Argentina. National University of Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones de Periodismo y Comunicación "Héctor Schmucler" (CIPECO). Sol Viñolo" Reading Group.

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Published

2022-11-25

How to Cite

Life, death in/ from transvestite writing. (2022). Polémicas Feministas, 6, 1-12. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/polemicasfeminista/article/view/39470