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Dogs in Heat: Untaming bodies, relocating tongues. Sally
Bellerose Married Ladies Have Sex in the Bathroom
Nelson
G. Rodríguez Avilez
Univeridade
da Coruña
España
It
seems a traditional conclusion the fact that queer
sexualities survive within the socio-economical and moral
context of the different executioners of power. Not just
the traditional factors previously mentioned, but also,
place, location and time have composed the frames in which
to build the lives of the majority of the population. The
performance within these contexts have helped to delimit
the frontiers in between the [hetero]normative, and the
dissident, and even achieve in tricking the dissident –
the queer – to believe such nomative as the ideal under
which to live. These subtle executioners of power created
the frame for the welfare state of morals that Sally
Bellerose shakes to its foundations in her micro-story
Married Ladies Have Sex in the Bathroom.
Gloria
Anzaldúa in her classic Borderlands/la Frontera talked
abot the “wild tongues” that canot be tamed. Sally
Bellerose in this micro-story, recreates the figure of the
“signifying other” a figure to represent the
relocation of the otherness to its own center. To conform
this figure, Bellerose creates characters that untame
their bodies and relocate their tongues in the sense of
discovering their self as well as recovering it by means
of claiming sex and pleasure in a warcry of
destabilization from the heter[r]o[r]norm.
The
aim of my paper is to show how the categories
interpellated by power to specifically delimit the frame
in which to live and act can be destabilized by the
procces of relocating the subject outside the original
frame, and within its own and specificone, refusing to
accept interpellation as a si-ne-qua-non condition for a
living.
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