Ugly Duckling Tales: Humour, Shame, Narcissism and Orality in La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) and La patografía (1998)

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María Celina Bortolotto

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Informed by philosophy and psychoanalytical theory, this analysis proposes that Puig and Lozada adopt a humoristic attitude in both novels and experiment with polyphony and orality to define what I call “loca” writing. This narcissistic oral writing adheres to the aesthetics of kitsch and camp to recreate the liminal “surface” of humour (Deleuze 1969) as a rhetorical and philosophical tool to transcend shame and resist normalization with original voices and spaces.

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María Celina Bortolotto, Massey University

Massey University, Nueva Zelanda M.C.Bortolotto@massey.ac.nz