Releyendo el surrealismo desde una perspectiva feminista

  1. Susana Cendán Caaveiro 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Feminismo/s

ISSN: 1696-8166,  1989-9998

Ano de publicación: 2022

Número: 39

Páxinas: 39-57

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.14198/FEM.2022.39.02 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

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Resumo

The object of this study is to rethink surrealism, contextualizing it in the present and critically reviewing some of its theoretical postulates, particularly those that have influenced the construction of a stereotyped image of women. Muses, eternal girls or femme fatales, the surrealists exercised through their works and writings a continuous and, in many cases, intolerable manipulation of the body and image of women, under the pretext of eroticism, sexuality or myth. Surrealism opened its doors to more female creators than any other vanguard movement. However, its insistence on understanding them as poetic subjects meant that it missed the opportunity to review, objectively, female motivations. It is enough to observe the creations of many surrealist artists to appreciate that their interests have nothing to do with those of their male colleagues: they rarely identified with erotic mythology or Freudian symbolism, building an imaginary that put in value their own personal circumstances. As a methodological starting point, we have used a relatively recent publication (2005) by Alyce Mahon, Surrealism, Eros and Politics (1938-1968), which vindicates the validity of surrealism using philosophical arguments, idealisms and myths. Contrasting Mahon’s views with the contributions of key figures in feminism and scholars of surrealism, we contribute a series of reflections on the hidden structures of power, trying to unmask those narratives that, behind a supposed objectivity, manifest an ideological continuity with traditional power mechanisms. Also, we propose the need to remain vigilant about the information sources and the teaching and academic methodologies, in order to contextualize and critically analyze the excesses of certain artistic ideologies.

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