Bortolotto MC15/08/201715/08/2017Taller de Letras, 2017, (60), pp. 107 - 121 (14)0716-0798https://hdl.handle.net/10179/11796Informed by philosophy and psychoanalytical theory, this analysis proposes that Puig and Lozada adopt a humoristic attitude in both novels and experiment with polyphony and orality to define what I call “loca” writing. This narcissistic oral writing adheres to the aesthetics of kitsch and camp to recreate the liminal “surface” of humour (Deleuze 1969) as a rhetorical and philosophical tool to transcend shame and resist normalization with original voices and spaces.107 - 121 (14)Journal article368252Massey_Dark2005 Literary Studies