The Semantics of Solidarity: Radical Vulnerability and Gendered Language in Elia Barceló’s Consecuencias naturales

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  • Marit Hanson St. Olaf College

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https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.25.11

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Radical vulnerability | Peninsular science fiction | Cultural studies

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In Elia Barceló’s novel, Consecuencias naturales, both protagonists undergo biological interventions that cause them to share some or all of the physical characteristics attributed to a gender unlike the one with which they identify. It also deliberately employs gendered language to mount critiques of the heteronormative societal structures that this language reflects. I argue that the trajectory of the protagonists’ experiences suggests that physical embodiment is not enough to and engage in radical vulnerability with the Other. Instead, radical discursive change is needed to create a mutually understood linguistic paradigm in which both parties may empathize with the other’s positionality and lived experience.

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Marit Hanson es profesora adjunta de letras hispánicas en St. Olaf College, MN, Estados Unidos.

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2021-07-30