Maquillaje mórbido para Eva: Perlongher y la mistificación peronista

Abstract

This paper analyzes the fictionalization of Eva Perón as imagined by Perlongher in relation with the essayistic production of the author. In this sense, the erotic personification of “Evita is alive” is used as a polemic device in the homosexual struggle ́s arguments over identity, as well as the revolutionary re- reading about Peronism, which the new Left of the seventies supported. This fiction of a lascivious Eva opens the way to recover her marginal past, whose elision from official history admits the moral retreat in the presence of patriarchal frontiers that the discipline of the Peronist party imposes. Hence the story of Perlongher allows reading Eva ́s makeup as functional to the propaganda of revolutionary Peronism, based on the groundbreaking illusion that is created by the political novelty of female participation given to Eva. Simultaneously, this allows reading in “Evita is alive” the narrative articulation between the minor figure of Eva as a promiscuous woman in relation with the premise of sexual transgression which characterizes the revolutionary militancy of Perlongher.