Shameful sins: a Reaction to Capitalist Ethics in No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2006)
| dc.citation.issue | 6 | |
| dc.citation.volume | 20 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bortolotto M | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Chen, F-J | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-14 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12-14 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In her article “A Sinful Reaction to Capitalist Ethics in No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2006)” María Celina Bortolotto analyzes how Lozada’s characterization of the main character, La Loca, questions the ideals of free agency offered by consumerist capitalism and the urban gay male ideal under the promise of a liberating gay lifestyle in a social context defined by identity politics. The novel is a fictionalized autobiographical account of Puerto Rican author Angel Lozada’s misadventures in the early 2000s gay scene in New York. This essay plays with the punitive sense of the word “capital” in the seven capital sins as a thematic thread to invite a reflection on the concepts of virtue and value constructed under U.S. Protestant capitalism: the former as emancipatory guilt; the latter as the specific status society grants to objects, practices and people creating, in turn, subjects whose value is purely economic versus those whose lives are deemed (morally) valuable in themselves. | |
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| dc.edition.edition | December 2018 | |
| dc.format.extent | ? - ? (8) | |
| dc.identifier | https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol20/iss6/5/ | |
| dc.identifier | 5 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture, 2018, December 2018, 20 (6), pp. ? - ? (8) | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.7771/1481-4374.3316> | |
| dc.identifier.elements-id | 419185 | |
| dc.identifier.harvested | Massey_Dark | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1481-4374 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | Purdue University Press | |
| dc.publisher.uri | https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol20/iss6/5/ | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| dc.relation.uri | https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3316&context=clcweb | |
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| dc.subject.anzsrc | 2001 Communication and Media Studies | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 2002 Cultural Studies | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 2005 Literary Studies | |
| dc.title | Shameful sins: a Reaction to Capitalist Ethics in No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2006) | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
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| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University | |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Humanities, Media & Creative Communication |