Presented By: Comparative Literature
Femicide, Infrapolitics, and Sexual Difference
Sol Peláez, Associate Professor of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures, Mississippi State University
Talk: Thursday, October 25th, at 4PM
RLL Commons MLB 4th Floor
Workshop: Friday, October 26th, 11:30- 1PM
RLL Commons MLB 4th Floor
All events are free and open to the public
Professor Sol Peláez will present a talk on sexual difference and Latin American literature, concentrating in the works of Luce Irigaray, Helène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and Joan Copjec. Her research explores how the notion of infrapolitics articulates with sexual difference through a reading of Selva Almada’s work Chicas Muertas (2014). Almada, an Argentine writer, writes a hybrid text investigating 3 femicides in Argentina during the 80’s, the first years of the democratic transition. The writing of Almada traces the hierarchical powers of gender violence and opens a space to think woman beyond the patriarchal binaries and its violence. What does it mean to be a woman if one is not what the killers want, that is, a mere biological body? How not to be reduced to that minimal body that the murderers aim to appropriate totally? How not to be reduced to a mere body without rest, to escape that biological murdering determinism?
Peláez addresses those questions from a unique perspective which engages closely with feminism and Latin-American studies. She approaches an under researched area of philosophy, i.e. sexual difference, and articulates it with contemporary works of Latin American fiction and critical thought. Her scholar work on gender and sexuality is addressing historical gaps in both scholarships and responds to a particular urgency to discuss women’s work and intellectual contributions in our times.
In the workshop, Peláez will be present for an informal discussion of texts on sexual difference with faculty and graduate students.
Please e-mail rparrine@umich.com to RSVP to the workshop and receive the texts we will be discussing.
RLL Commons MLB 4th Floor
Workshop: Friday, October 26th, 11:30- 1PM
RLL Commons MLB 4th Floor
All events are free and open to the public
Professor Sol Peláez will present a talk on sexual difference and Latin American literature, concentrating in the works of Luce Irigaray, Helène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and Joan Copjec. Her research explores how the notion of infrapolitics articulates with sexual difference through a reading of Selva Almada’s work Chicas Muertas (2014). Almada, an Argentine writer, writes a hybrid text investigating 3 femicides in Argentina during the 80’s, the first years of the democratic transition. The writing of Almada traces the hierarchical powers of gender violence and opens a space to think woman beyond the patriarchal binaries and its violence. What does it mean to be a woman if one is not what the killers want, that is, a mere biological body? How not to be reduced to that minimal body that the murderers aim to appropriate totally? How not to be reduced to a mere body without rest, to escape that biological murdering determinism?
Peláez addresses those questions from a unique perspective which engages closely with feminism and Latin-American studies. She approaches an under researched area of philosophy, i.e. sexual difference, and articulates it with contemporary works of Latin American fiction and critical thought. Her scholar work on gender and sexuality is addressing historical gaps in both scholarships and responds to a particular urgency to discuss women’s work and intellectual contributions in our times.
In the workshop, Peláez will be present for an informal discussion of texts on sexual difference with faculty and graduate students.
Please e-mail rparrine@umich.com to RSVP to the workshop and receive the texts we will be discussing.
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