{"title":"A Space Odyssey: Decoding the Reality of Dictatorship in Carolina de Robertis’s Cantoras","authors":"Sreeparna Das","doi":"10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202101011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"By turns brutal and beautiful, Carolina de Robertis’s 2019 novel Cantoras explores twelve years of violent Uruguayan dictatorship where five women of different ages, social, economic, and familial circumstances are yet all equally affected by misogyny, homophobia, and political repression. The women come together to create a haven of freedom wherein to navigate their sexuality without being criminalized, in the middle of a place where freedom for a better future seems to belong to “another bohemian era of dreams.” Pieced together from the real-life oral narratives and testimonies of hundreds, lost or silenced in the mainstream din, the novel brings to life a portrait of queer love and forgotten history unlike any other. This essay aims a close reading of the socio-political environment of the novel from dictatorship to the revolution which makes the journey that these women take from social isolation to widespread acceptance, their achievements, losses, and resilience shine all the more.","PeriodicalId":65200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages and Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Languages and Cultures","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202101011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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By turns brutal and beautiful, Carolina de Robertis’s 2019 novel Cantoras explores twelve years of violent Uruguayan dictatorship where five women of different ages, social, economic, and familial circumstances are yet all equally affected by misogyny, homophobia, and political repression. The women come together to create a haven of freedom wherein to navigate their sexuality without being criminalized, in the middle of a place where freedom for a better future seems to belong to “another bohemian era of dreams.” Pieced together from the real-life oral narratives and testimonies of hundreds, lost or silenced in the mainstream din, the novel brings to life a portrait of queer love and forgotten history unlike any other. This essay aims a close reading of the socio-political environment of the novel from dictatorship to the revolution which makes the journey that these women take from social isolation to widespread acceptance, their achievements, losses, and resilience shine all the more.
卡罗琳娜·德·罗伯蒂斯(Carolina de Robartis)2019年的小说《坎特拉斯》(Cantras)时而残酷,时而美丽,探讨了乌拉圭12年的暴力独裁统治,五位不同年龄、社会、经济和家庭环境的女性都同样受到厌女症、恐同症和政治镇压的影响。这些女性聚集在一起,创造了一个自由的天堂,在这个天堂里,她们可以在不被定罪的情况下驾驭自己的性取向,在这个地方,为了更美好的未来,自由似乎属于“另一个波西米亚梦想时代”,这部小说生动地描绘了一段奇特的爱情和被遗忘的历史。本文旨在细读小说从独裁到革命的社会政治环境,这使得这些女性从社会孤立到被广泛接受的历程,她们的成就、损失和韧性更加闪耀。