Insinuar ‘eso’: afectividades lesbianas y literatura en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX.

Abstract

This article seeks to explore the ways in which Argentinian literary representations set the stage to reflect about lesbian affects, in the first half of the twentieth century. In this sense, it seeks to observe the way in which varied textual strategies, modulations among gender and genre and self-figurations, establish dialogues and detours in relation with other social narratives. Some of the first lesbian fictions of Argentinian literature (Gómez Carrillo, Bunge, Baron Biza, Mallea and Medina Onrubia) will be revisited with the certainty that these materials enable historical reflections. Furthermore, we approach them with the conviction that in partaking in the debates relative to the construction of the Nation and/or the cultural field, these fictions offered models or literary and sexual alternative politics while stimulating the visibility of certain modulations that Argentine culture molds into the relations between texts and bodies, the national and the foreign, sexual politics and literary politics, between passion and writing.