The possibilities of motion: dynamics of storytelling in Mariana Docampo’s narrative
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Mariana Docampo, Queer Theory, Feminisms, Argentine Literature, TangoAbstract
In Tango Queer, an essay published in 2018, Mariana Docampo explains vividly her attachment to tango, a dance she learned during many years before she began to teach, and she promote a transcendent change in the way tango is danced: she is one of the founders of a Milonga Queer. In this book Docampo tells the story of how she queerized tango. She includes, also, a “manifesto” to explain the fundaments of this change, a text that can be also useful for feminist epistemologies. Starting point is the idea of tango as a “gender performance” itself. There she sees the possibility for a change of orientation, by subverting one of the pivotal knots of tango: the binary understanding of gender roles. Motion constitutes a keynote in all her novels written between 2007 and 2021, and in her earlier texts as well. There is in all of them a queer perspective, working against a centered and univocal idea of subjectivity. This approach to Docampo’s work will consider the theorization of Teresa de Lauretis and Sara Ahmed.
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