Men’s literature. Body mural Maras
Lace canvases woven in skin
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https://doi.org/10.51378/realidad.v1i162.7727Keywords:
Machismo, Masculinity, Pornography, TattooingAbstract
In this paper I read Mara’s tattoos as murals, or lace paintings carved into the skin. I use three conceptual proposals: 1) Laurent Berlant’s ‘public intimacy’; 2) Angela Carters’s ‘pornography’; and 3) Clyde Barrow’ ‘lumpenproletariat.’ My claim is that a concept used by feminist theorists, that of ‘women’s literature,’ turned upside down can be read as ‘men’s literature’ and, how, concepts stored in the historical warehouse and in disuse could, turned inside out, galvanize the reading or current circumstances. The same holds true for the concept of moral or metaphysical pornography read as men’s literature and of the lumpenproletariat as a group expression at the service of right and left politics.
Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 162, 2023: 7-15.
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