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Em “Peeling” Peter Carey retrata a relação que um homem mais velho impõe sobre uma enfermeira de abortos. Esta mulher remodela bonecas como criaturas brancas, tornando-as representações simbólicas da mutilação implícita para a construção social do “feminino” e da própria morte. Proponho “pelar” algumas das camadas interpretativas do texto: o monologismo “Mulher”, fantasias masturbatórias masculinas, desejo homo-erótico reprimido, e a abjecção ameaçadora à identidade de género.
In “Peeling” Peter Carey depicts the relationship an older man imposes on an abortionist. This woman refashions dolls as white creatures, thus acting as symbolic representations of the mutilation implicit to the social construction of “feminine” and of death itself. I propose to “peel away” some of the possible interpretative layers: the monologic construction of “Woman”, male masturbatory fantasies, repressed homo-erotic desire and the threatening abjection to gender identity.
In “Peeling” Peter Carey depicts the relationship an older man imposes on an abortionist. This woman refashions dolls as white creatures, thus acting as symbolic representations of the mutilation implicit to the social construction of “feminine” and of death itself. I propose to “peel away” some of the possible interpretative layers: the monologic construction of “Woman”, male masturbatory fantasies, repressed homo-erotic desire and the threatening abjection to gender identity.
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BISCAIA, Maria Sofia Pimentel - Fleshing gender out: male fantasies and female body issues in Peter Carey’s “Peeling”. Máthesis. Viseu. ISSN 0872-0215. Nº 19 (2010), p. 155-167.
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa