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Essay Galaxy - The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
The Queer Use of Communal Women in Borges'
"El muerto" and "La intrusa"
Sex and women are two very problematic components in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges: the absence of these two elements, which seems so casual and unremarkable, really highlights the strangeness of their exclusion. For example, scenes of sexual acts are almost totally lacking in Borgesian writing (Emma Zunz's sexual encounter with an anonymous sailor is the most notable exception) and even the most veiled suggestion of erotic activities is limited to only a very few stories. Similarly scarce,[1] too, are female characters who figure prominently in the narration and who seem to possess a independent personhood.[2] The fictional world created by Borges is a place where women, if they appear at all, seem to exist mainly as debased objects[3] for the purpose of providi....
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