Is there a body in this corpus? Sexual/Textual Corporalities in the Fantastic

Abstract

Establishing a dialogue with a textual corpus from fantastic and / or unusual genre literature written by women (Mariana Enríquez, Patricia Esteban Erlés, Cecilia Eudave, Angélica Gorodisher and Sofía Rhei), this article maps  corporeal literary critique focused on four – not exclusive– types of interrelations between text and body: (1) the body represented in the text; (2) the body that is materially the text; (3) the bodily notions that are embodied in writing and the instruments of criticism, and (4) the body (as deletion or erasure) of those who do the work of reading-interpreting a literary text from a critical theory perspective. In this way, the approach lines of this type of corporal criticism are drawn at the crossroads of textual and sexual genres that do not intend to be definitive, but suggestive and contagious.