Jesús and his search for a heterotopic place to become Viva
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46661/relies.5912Keywords:
Viva, Irish-Cuban movie, cabaret, Paddy Breathnach, heterotopic spaceAbstract
This paper analyzes the Irish-Cuban movie entitled Viva. This research takes as its starting point the idea that the cabaret constitutes a heterotopic space that allows Jesus to become Viva. In addition, I examine the encounter between Jesús/Viva and Ángel and the socioeconomic aspects that surround these characters, by paying special attention to the contrast between the neighbourhood and the cabaret, by focusing on the importance of the second one as an alternative to the daily ordinariness. The cabaret is the place in which Jesus can assume their feminine side without being judged. Furthermore, this paper examines the importance of the parrhesia between Jesús/Viva and Ángel has as a key element to allow them to know and accept each other and to make up for the lost time.
Downloads
References
Aparicio, Y. & Ángel E. (2017). En el cine cubano actual: de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea a Juan de los muertos. Poética de una desintegración. Literatura y cultura cubanas en tiempos de cambio. Editorial Verbum: Madrid: 127-143.
Deleuze, G. & F. Guattari. (1978). Mil mesetas. Pre-textos. Valencia.
Deleuze, G. (1987). Qu’est-ce que l’acte de création?. Deux régimes de fous et autres, http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/acte-de-creation-gilles-deleuze.html
Elsaesser, T. (1991). Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama. Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama. Wayne State University Press: Detroit: 68-92.
Foucault, M. (2004). Des espaces autres. Empan 2 : 12-19.
Foucault, M. (2010). El coraje de la verdad. FCE, México.
Fusco, C. (1998). Hustling for dollars: jineterismo in Cuba. Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. Routledge: Nueva York: 151-166.
Butler, J. (2006). Deshacer el género. Paidós, Buenos Aires.
Portales, Y. S. (2009). Para que otra voz se escuche. Sobre el reconocimiento legal y social de las personas LGBT en Cuba en la primera década del siglo XXI. Enfoques: 1-24.
Sierra Madero, A. (2013). Cuerpos en venta: pinguerismo y masculinidad negociada en la Cuba contemporánea. Nómadas 38: 167-183.
Breathnach P. (2015). Viva. Treasure Entertainment.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Leonor Taiano Campoverde

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.