The Women’s Models and Alternative Sexuality in the Novels of Lucía Etxebarria "Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts" and "Beatrice and the Heavenly..." Cover Image

Los modelos de mujer y las sexualidades disidentes en las novelas de Lucía Etxebarria "Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas" y "Beatriz y los cuerpos..."
The Women’s Models and Alternative Sexuality in the Novels of Lucía Etxebarria "Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts" and "Beatrice and the Heavenly..."

Author(s): Marta Kobiela-Kwaśniewska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Spanish feminine literature; women’s sexual identity; lesbian model; Lucía Etxebarria

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to present ways in which a controversial Spanish novelist, Lucía Etxebarria, expresses and subverts traditional social models and sexual identity of Spanish women at the end of the twentieth century by creation of female protagonists such as a promiscuouos girl, a workaholic executive or a housewife that tend to deconstruct socially normative conceptualizations of their roles and sexuality and they search for alternative constructions of feminine identity, both social and sexual one. It seems that a lesbian model of relationship is alternative to a monogamous compulsory heterosexuality.

  • Issue Year: 8/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 39-47
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Spanish