RT Journal Article
T1 Neo-Victorian Transcorporeality: Narrating Julia Pastrana's Body.
T2 Transcorporalidad neovictoriana: Narrando el cuerpo de Julia Pastrana
A1 Pettersson, Lin Elinor
K1 Mujeres - S. XIX - En la literatura
K1 Literatura inglesa - S. XXI
AB Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) features prominently in neo-Victorian biofiction, which is probably indebted to her tragic life and posthumous exploitation in the hands of her husband-manager Theodore Lent. Pastrana’s career surpassed her death when Lent continued touring her embalmed body – an exhibition that would outlive him into the late twentieth century. Although Pastrana was repatriated and buried in 2013, she did not reach the final rest as her story continues to fascinate twentieth-first century audiences. This essay focuses on the ways in which Pastrana’s body has been constructed and produced narratively building on multiple discourses that straddle different disciplines and cultural settings that span three centuries. The two biofictional novels Julia Pastrana (2007) by Sandy Olson and Julian Fenech, and The Orphans of the Carnival (2016) by Carol Birch will be analysed through the lens of trans- corporeality (Alaimo, 2010). By drawing on twenty-first century feminist theory on the body that has placed emphasis on the body as a dynamic and travelling concept through its orientations and intersectionality, my principal aim is to provide new insights into the ways in which contemporary novelists have rendered Pastrana’s body.
PB Universitat Jaume I
YR 2023
FD 2023-05-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35142
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35142
LA eng
NO Pettersson, L. E. (2023). Transcorporalidad neovictoriana: Narrando el cuerpo de Julia Pastrana. Cultura, Lenguaje Y Representación, 30, 207–221. https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.6837
NO LITCAE – Literaturas Contemporáneas en el Ámbito Europeo (HUM-858), IGIUMA – el Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Género e Igualdad de la Universidad de Málaga.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026