Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls like Maria Emilia
( Column # 2 published in 2008 to the late portal Ekovoces News )
She fastens his pants, he sleeps, snoring. The hotel always, always action. Suddenly, the sound of a vibration makes you turn your head. The display shows the name of it: strong, true, the official said. She does not respond. I'm bad, think while the other fits and tries to embrace. No, I'm not bad, this will take for granted. Then yawns and curls up in the arms of one who snores beside her.
was born in the eighties. Peruvian born when the poets who are now between forty and sixty years were beginning to impose their transgressive voice in the poetry of my country. I was born when brewing verses possessing a clear reference to erotic female subject under the influence of a suicidal poet, a Peruvian of twenty-three unfinished poems that had already said "I'm the bad girl of the story / that whoredom with three men / and pulled out her husband cheated on. " Maria Emilia Cornejo, author of the poetry book "In the middle of the road" published seventeen years after his death, had become a legend in poetry written by women in Peru not only because of his untimely death - which I think contributed to this myth - but, mainly, to say the record straight with regard to sense of women in a handful of verses rather naive maybe did not plan to publish, but in fact set the tone for the poets who succeeded him talk about orgasms, body fluids and clandestine mounted grab a voice and lyrics that in their opinion, stated as a subject, but that also reaffirmed its position of objects inside the Peruvian literary criticism. However, the image Maria Emilia transgressive ignores the quality of the verses to open a road that has been traveled by many writers, who despite doing so with greater expertise, they will never attain the image of the suicidal poet who called himself "the girl bad history "and that it was so into it.
was born in eighty-three, when Pedro Almodovar and had three movies and the fourth began to take shape. The first "Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like" had been installed in underground culture to portray the reality that existed post-Franco in Madrid in these years, a chaotic reality, decadent transgressive. The protagonists of this story are three women, three girls from the pile that banish the image of the "right woman" and replace it with three realities that were hidden, realities that no one mentioned images is crude. Starting Pepi, a young woman who grows marijuana in his balcony and is willing to sell her virginity to the highest bidder, then Luci, a masochistic forties decides to leave her husband to become groupie a rocker teenager who falls in love and is called Bom, who in turn is sadistic, lesbian, and that in his lyrics makes clear reference to his sexual fantasies. Three transgressive, three women recreated by a filmmaker to break the traditional mold and plant, consciously or unconsciously, a precedent that would be repeated in the following productions almodorvianas as a symbol that marked the change of an era. I cite these examples
twenty years ago to enter the subject of the image of the transgressive woman of our times. What can we do if it all made more than twenty years ago? Thanks to these women (real or fictional) have not had to give the job to open doors that are open, that is why I consider ridiculous that fully twenty-first century people are surprised when a woman talks or writes about issues that have been trying ages ago time. We are no longer transgressive, we inherit the transgression of those who came before, who set the tone, of those who fought for it. Because these days, whether questionable or not, nobody is surprised that a woman sleeps with many people at once, that has its disloyalty to bed, that is infidel, who has other sexual preferences. This is normal in the private space and I think it should be also in the public. Doing this is not transgress transgress now would be, for example, a virgin at marriage or think about being the perfect housewife. To open up another question, I think of the award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, who does the same thing they did Janis Joplin and Patti Smith for many years; however, have been labeled as the new image of women and offending different when that image has been there since the sixties and thus completely lacks novelty and Miss out tattooed, drugged and defend anorexia as a lifestyle .
This does not affirm that it has changed the image of women or that all so transgressive act, but I think there is some confusion as to what is or is not infringing, as to what the canon now, what is the correct image of women in these times. Which way we should seek to transgress and set a tone? Is there a way to rebel against any and all hegemonic system if have done before? Who are the real transgressors? What are the new ways of breaking these days? Is it necessary? How transgress transgression? What is the current image of the "good woman" and "evil woman"? I leave for work.
Hello, Goodbye
( Column # 2 published in 2008 to the late portal Ekovoces News )
She fastens his pants, he sleeps, snoring. The hotel always, always action. Suddenly, the sound of a vibration makes you turn your head. The display shows the name of it: strong, true, the official said. She does not respond. I'm bad, think while the other fits and tries to embrace. No, I'm not bad, this will take for granted. Then yawns and curls up in the arms of one who snores beside her.
was born in the eighties. Peruvian born when the poets who are now between forty and sixty years were beginning to impose their transgressive voice in the poetry of my country. I was born when brewing verses possessing a clear reference to erotic female subject under the influence of a suicidal poet, a Peruvian of twenty-three unfinished poems that had already said "I'm the bad girl of the story / that whoredom with three men / and pulled out her husband cheated on. " Maria Emilia Cornejo, author of the poetry book "In the middle of the road" published seventeen years after his death, had become a legend in poetry written by women in Peru not only because of his untimely death - which I think contributed to this myth - but, mainly, to say the record straight with regard to sense of women in a handful of verses rather naive maybe did not plan to publish, but in fact set the tone for the poets who succeeded him talk about orgasms, body fluids and clandestine mounted grab a voice and lyrics that in their opinion, stated as a subject, but that also reaffirmed its position of objects inside the Peruvian literary criticism. However, the image Maria Emilia transgressive ignores the quality of the verses to open a road that has been traveled by many writers, who despite doing so with greater expertise, they will never attain the image of the suicidal poet who called himself "the girl bad history "and that it was so into it.
was born in eighty-three, when Pedro Almodovar and had three movies and the fourth began to take shape. The first "Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like" had been installed in underground culture to portray the reality that existed post-Franco in Madrid in these years, a chaotic reality, decadent transgressive. The protagonists of this story are three women, three girls from the pile that banish the image of the "right woman" and replace it with three realities that were hidden, realities that no one mentioned images is crude. Starting Pepi, a young woman who grows marijuana in his balcony and is willing to sell her virginity to the highest bidder, then Luci, a masochistic forties decides to leave her husband to become groupie a rocker teenager who falls in love and is called Bom, who in turn is sadistic, lesbian, and that in his lyrics makes clear reference to his sexual fantasies. Three transgressive, three women recreated by a filmmaker to break the traditional mold and plant, consciously or unconsciously, a precedent that would be repeated in the following productions almodorvianas as a symbol that marked the change of an era. I cite these examples
twenty years ago to enter the subject of the image of the transgressive woman of our times. What can we do if it all made more than twenty years ago? Thanks to these women (real or fictional) have not had to give the job to open doors that are open, that is why I consider ridiculous that fully twenty-first century people are surprised when a woman talks or writes about issues that have been trying ages ago time. We are no longer transgressive, we inherit the transgression of those who came before, who set the tone, of those who fought for it. Because these days, whether questionable or not, nobody is surprised that a woman sleeps with many people at once, that has its disloyalty to bed, that is infidel, who has other sexual preferences. This is normal in the private space and I think it should be also in the public. Doing this is not transgress transgress now would be, for example, a virgin at marriage or think about being the perfect housewife. To open up another question, I think of the award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, who does the same thing they did Janis Joplin and Patti Smith for many years; however, have been labeled as the new image of women and offending different when that image has been there since the sixties and thus completely lacks novelty and Miss out tattooed, drugged and defend anorexia as a lifestyle .
This does not affirm that it has changed the image of women or that all so transgressive act, but I think there is some confusion as to what is or is not infringing, as to what the canon now, what is the correct image of women in these times. Which way we should seek to transgress and set a tone? Is there a way to rebel against any and all hegemonic system if have done before? Who are the real transgressors? What are the new ways of breaking these days? Is it necessary? How transgress transgression? What is the current image of the "good woman" and "evil woman"? I leave for work.
Hello, Goodbye
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