Lust to see: literature, gender and nation-state in the critical writing of Sylvia Molloy

Abstract

The article proposes a reading of the critical protocols that appear in the critical writing of Sylvia Molloy when she reads crossings between gender, modernity and nation-state in the literary corpus and debates of Argentine and Latin American culture. The analysis will focus on the texts "The gender issue: forgotten proposals and critical challenges" (2000); "Deviations of reading: sexuality and difference in Latin American literature"; "Gender and modernity" (2003) and End of the century poses. Overflows of gender in modernity (2012) and will investigate the way in which Molloy has read the literary canons constituted as a mechanism of cohesion required by national cultures and their transgression from a deviant reading and a striking rereading, particularly attentive to the forms textual denial and the work of writers with the pose.