Abstract

BUSTAMANTE ESCALONA, Fernanda. Pedagogies of cruelty, femicide and the discursive authorization regime in stories by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias: the challenge of unlearning patriarchal logic (violence). Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.1, pp.444-474. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.00018.

In this article I analyze three stories by the Cuban writer Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Camagüey, 1984) “Reírse de todo, “Estúpida” and “Wanda” focusing on the stylistic strategies used by the author to (d)enounce patriarchal violence against women, physical and psychological, and femicide, as the culminating act of this violence. I start from the idea that Rodríguez is inclined to represent women who do not necessarily empower themselves or have a critical position in the face of the gender violence, but rather, women who have patriarchal practices embedded in their own bodies, participating in them actively, but from the defenselessness and absence of an awareness of the violence to which they are subjected. In other words, the author portrays these women to reflect upon the difficulties, complexities and pain present at the time of un-disciplining their bodies, of unlearning patriarchal patterns of socialization.

Keywords : Legna Rodríguez Iglesias; Pedagogies of cruelty; Femicide violence; Patriarchy; Cuban narrative.

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