Atkin, Rhian  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6158-7349
2016.
In praise of subjectivity: Vision and perspective in Jorge de Sena’s O Físico Prodigioso.
Romance Studies
34
(2)
, pp. 125-138.
10.1080/02639904.2016.1151261
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Abstract
This article seeks to assess questions of vision, power and sexual desire in the relationship between the gazed-upon object and the gazing subject in Jorge de Sena’s 1966 novella O Físico Prodigioso. It is proposed that the constantly shifting narrative focus of the text permits the reader to move beyond the gender-coded and unidirectional gaze relationship outlined by Mulvey, and thus break down the binaries of male-female, gazer-gazee, and powerful-powerless which traditionally dominate our conceptions of sexual and political power relations. The article proposes that O Físico Prodigioso presents a textual working through of the multiple, partial perspectives that Haraway lauds as an alternative to male-coded objectivity, where diverse perspectives and visual exchange are crucial to personal sexual relationships and to political resistance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Modern Languages |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| ISSN: | 0263-9904 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 19 April 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 10 June 2015 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2024 06:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89350 |
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