Abstract

CANO, Luis C.. Alternative worlds without female voices: Las Violetas son flores del deseo by Ana Clavel y Lusus naturae by Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría. Co-herencia [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.30, pp.107-128. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.16.30.5.

This paper explores the contrasting variety of directions and approaches of two Hispanic American writers who have used motifs and worldviews related to dystopian narrative in their novels. On one hand, the design and commercialization of prepubertal dolls, in an environment of clandestine desires and secret societies, as explored by the Mexican writer Ana Clavel in Las Violetas son flores del deseo (2007). On the other hand, the futile search for an original human being in the futuristic extrapolation Lusus naturae (2016), by Argentine novelist Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría. The factor integrating these disparate views is the conspicuous absence of voice, agency or transformative faculty on the part of female characters in both stories.

Keywords : Ustopia; utopia; dystopia; science fiction; posthumanism; contemporary Mexican literature; contemporary Argentine literature.

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