The Threatened Eros: Bodies and Territories Won in Un Mundo Huérfano by Giuseppe Caputo
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i24.11544Keywords:
Territory, precariousness, Eros and Thanatos, homoeroticism.Abstract
This article investigates the place that is awarded to diverse bodies and the struggles that these face in Giuseppe Caputo’s Un mundo huérfano (2016). In this work, we see a trope that is present throughout the history of literature: the relationship between Eros and Thanatos. Here, however, death is not a product of fatal love between lovers, rather, it is inflicted by those who consider that certain bodies, the Eros that is produced between them, are illicit, and they must, therefore, be erased from the territory. The novel manifests the orphanhood and precariousness in which individuals are found and who are not only marginalized for violating patriarchal and heteronormative standards but are relegated to the city limits. Nevertheless, the Eros enables the creation of a personal territory in which these bodies resist sovereign rule.
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