CAHSS Faculty Articles
Making the Invisible, Visible: The Body and the Nation in Laura Ruiz Montes’ A Ciegas
Department
Department of Literature and Modern Languages
Publication Date
Fall 2013
Publication Title
Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
ISSN
2474-5766
Volume
5
Issue/No.
1
First Page
1
Last Page
14
Abstract
This study analyzes A Ciegas, a one-act playby the Cuban writer Laura Ruiz Montes (Matanzas, 1966). In this work, Ruiz Montes relies upon both the erotic (specifically the female body) and the supernatural, to underscore the complex nature of gender and sexuality within Cuba’s national history. In A Ciegas, the female body and female sexuality appear in the shadows, “invisible” within the nation. Ruiz Montes juxtaposes present and past, realism and the supernatural, and heterosexual and homosexual desire in order to elucidate the various forms of difference that remain outside official national discourses.
NSUWorks Citation
Fuentes, Y. (2013). Making the Invisible, Visible: The Body and the Nation in Laura Ruiz Montes’ A Ciegas. Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, 5 (1), 1-14. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/37