Pía Barros: cuerpo y erotismo femenino

Absztrakt

Pía Barro’s (Melipilla, 1956) creative task began during the Chilean dictatorship and it still continues today. This paper focuses on showing that subversion in her short story production is set in motion by a wide social circumstance: the space of women and of the feminine both in society and language. I will explain how her work functions through a female character as a subversive act breaking with ideas about body and eroticism. I will demonstrate that her short stories decry the limitations imposed by phallocentric culture on the female body and its eroticism through discursive and physical violence. In that regard, I will analyze the creation of female characters through their connection with their bodies, characters that acknowledge their desire, dare to speak of it, and accept their previously nameless fluids and folds. Also, I will study the presence of male characters that no longer have control over sexual and romantic relations but rather exhibit weakness. The erotic situations in Barro’s short stories give way to a kind of pleasure which is considered – especially if one wants to name it – entirely feminine. To fulfill these goals I will selectively analyze her narrative production from the first publications in 1986 to the last in 2010.