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Zezé: la voz feminista en una obra queer

AUTHOR: Audrey Fitchett
FACULTY: Jennie Daniels
DEPARTMENT: WLC

ABSTRACT

When Angeles Vicente published her novella Zezé in 1909, a common feature of late 19th to early 20th century queer literature was the absolute misery experienced by the queer characters. Considered to be immoral degenerates, they suffered in a way that mirrored the sexologist depictions of their real-life counterparts. But some of the elements that made this literature so bleak are missing in Zezé, replaced by positivity and feminist elements, which brings up the question of whether or not Zezé is actually a queer work. This essay will discuss the queer and feminist elements present in Zezé and how they interact with each other. Using the theory of early 20th sexologists such as Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfield and feminist historians such as Carmen de la Guardia and Karen Offen to define what it means to be a queer/feminist work, I intend to prove that Zezé is queer, and the optimism that separates it from other queer literature at the time comes from the interaction of the queer and feminist elements in the novella.
(Presented in Spanish.)

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