Reseña Academica

El texto sucio/ The dirty text Bruja/Witch

ORALa pRESENTATION

Empezar

Soleida Rios

Author: Soleida Rios

- Cuban poet, writer, and cultural promoter, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1950. - has worked in education and literary promotion, currently leads cultural spaces at the Cuban Institute of the Book. - her work, notable in contemporary Cuban literature, includes poetry and poetic prose that invite reflection

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- Homosexuality- Sexual atmosphere - Percha (hanger) -moral doubts

Gothic influence

Twins

Restraint vs. debauchery

- Mirian Mercedes and Mercedes Mirian

Sensual atmosphere

- Explicit Sensuality: - "All alone today, alright" - P.124: “Placing both her hands on my chest, suddenly crushing my nipples.” - P.128: Detailed erotic descriptions, “her breath below... her hot tongue moistening.” - Homosexual Undertones: - A focus on forbidden or hidden desires within a repressive cultural framework.

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Growing sexual desire

'I feel a shiver of electricity. I'm torn between confusion, annoyance, and the electric sensations running up and down my body'

P.124-125

'She brings the hanger closer and closer, to flatten me out"

p.125

"I can feel her breath below, her tousling the folds of my dress, her hot tongue moistening, circling, searching, searching...

P.126

Conclusion

To sump up, this question not only encapsulates the characters' struggles and desires but also frames them in a way that invites an analysis of how societal norms shape — and sometimes repress — individual identities and self-expression through sexuality.

Sexual witchcraft in Cuba

Cuban Sexual witchcraft = weapon against male domination = female strategy to survive the crisis Sexual stratification = Maintained social hierarchies in correlation with race. Many of the women who turned to sexual witchcraft did so to become pregnant and, in this way, 'tie' their husbands down.