High tide of desire in Salvador Reyes’s narrative

Authors

  • Alexis Candia-Cáceres
  • Óscar Rosales-Neira

Keywords:

Salvador Reyes, Chilean literature, literary criticism, erotism, 20th century, Valparaíso

Abstract

This article proposes the study of the growth and expansion of female desire in Salvador Reyes’s narrative of Valparaíso: El café del puerto (1926), Piel nocturna (1936), Mónica Sanders (1951), and Valparaíso, puerto de nostalgia (1955). The transformation of female characters in these texts has been studied. We propose that these character change from objects of desire to desiring subjects, which clearly opposes the androcentric perspective of Chile in the first part of the 20th century. Likewise, the study analyzes a triad of lesbian scenes in Piel nocturna, which have not been studied in previous literaryresearch. These scenes anticipate the development of certain lesbian components in Chilean literature.

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Author Biographies

Alexis Candia-Cáceres

Doctor en Literatura, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Investigador del Centro de Estudios Avanzados (CEA), Universidad de Playa Ancha. Viña del Mar, Chile.

Óscar Rosales-Neira

Magíster en Literatura, Universidad de Playa Ancha. Alumno del Doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana Contemporánea, Universidad de Playa Ancha. Viña del Mar, Chile.

Published

2017-07-16

How to Cite

Candia-Cáceres, A., & Rosales-Neira, Óscar. (2017). High tide of desire in Salvador Reyes’s narrative. Atenea, (515), 63-80. Retrieved from https://revistas.udec.cl/index.php/atenea/article/view/352

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