Scaring the Uriburu:

the politic poetics of Oliverio Girondo in the thirties

Abstract

The article focuses on the multiple representations of the female figure in Espantapájaros… al alcance de todos (1932). The sight of the Latin American flâneur who has become permanent resident of the city of Buenos Aires, decomposes and shows the sociocultural contradictions of the city. The female figure, whose representation is far from being the possession of this resident, appears as an autonomous voice and body which materialize another way of experiencing modernity. Pioneer, in this sense, is the analysis of the relationship between Espantapájaros… al alcance de todos and two historical figures who, for Girondo, represented two opposite forms of life: José Felix Benito Uribru (1868-1932) and Norah Lange (1905-1972). Likewise, if focuses on the multiple representations of the female figure that show existential alternatives to bourgeois modernity. It is the singular female figure, whose pronoun is “she”, the one who resists any attempt of homogenization by the identitarian law.