The destruction of the patriarchal world in Reinaldo Arenas’ El color del verano
Abstract
This article explores and analyzes some relations between the narrative voice of the main character and the different levels of enunciation presented in Reinaldo Arenas’ El color del verano (1991). We have used both the gender theory and theoretical concepts from Mikhail Bakhtin to determine how the universe created in the novel establish particular relations with the world. The possible world artificially constructed through the artistic text demonstrates a political agenda related with the aesthetic of the grotesque. It creates a clear hiperbolization of the reality connected with Latin American aesthetic trends within the historical moments in which the novel was created
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