ALIVE BODY, DEAD BODY AND HALF-ALIVE BODY: CULTURAL SUBSTITUTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 271, Issue 259
Abstract
Trash has an indicative complex of features: accentuated incompliance with the Great Narrative, declared refusal from the hegemony of technical device, simplification of language, demonstrative aesthetic downplay, technical helplessness, which is labeled as deliberateness and «naïve writing», claims for «iconic text» etc. If one reflects upon this list, it becomes more or less obvious, that trash does for us our own social and cultural work, which we should be doing but aren’t. It substantiates the ambivalence of our attitude towards ostentatious vulgarity and captures the pleasure that is linked to it. Trash, as an original act of culture production (evenof culture policy) is not a simplification per se, but also а substitution. It is important to define one of the accompanying effects of this type of cultural substitution: trash achieves incompatible success in direct production of sensual. The construction of gender in trash is based, first of all, on the work with two so-called last taboos of the civilization – pedophilia and cannibalism. What seems at the first glance as throwing away of moral logic in noa, in regard to pedophilia and cannibalism, in trash visualises the desire to categorize the Other, classify it – and at that is created the illusion of seduction. In case of trash, we speak of the actualization of Foucault’s observation on the disciplinary practices of the body, which becomes the place for creating corresponding discourses. This thought in the processes of cultural substitution is driven to the «necessary» (appropriate for the perception) grotesque. Mostly, trash presents utopian projects, which allow imagining identity from which the gender component can be extracted. Remarkably, that in such procedures it is possible to imagine sex. The «I magined» sex relates to the obvious differences, as in noa it is always about the representation of abnormal body (eroticized, modified, sick, half-dead, etc.), according to which are elaborated the certain conventions in the description of normal body. Conventions are actualized also in regard to the borders of fictionconditionality, thus become visible also the strict «formulae» of genre prose.
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G. Uliura
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