| Revista: | La torre (Río Piedras) |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000399541 |
| ISSN: | 0040-9588 |
| Autores: | Rodríguez, María Soledad1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad de Puerto Rico, Facultad de Humanidades, Río Piedras, San Juan. Puerto Rico |
| Año: | 2006 |
| Periodo: | Jul-Dic |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Número: | 41-42 |
| Paginación: | 389-397 |
| País: | Puerto Rico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | Early in Merle Hodge´s novel, Crick Crack, Monkey, the protagonist says: And so Aunt Beatrice, who was only a distant lady in our memory, grew horns and a diablesse face and a thousand attributes of female terrifyigness(10). In this paper, I examine the woman with the cloven hoof, an invariable sign of the diablesse in the Caribbean, and the sensual attributes assigned to her in different places, among them her clothes, the presence of a hat or turban, eyes that we can or can´t see, a fragrance accompanying her, and whether she asks three questions. I will look at and analyze representations of the La Diablesse by artists, authors and storytellers, paying close attention to the leg as an outward symbol of conflicting natures or of having access or giving entrance to another sphere, thus disrupting boundaries; confusion or overlapping with the soucouyant, exclusion and difference; solitude, rejection, or lack of communication; a representation of male fears; and the desire to nurture and devour, among others. Finally, I will also discuss her ability to drive men crazy or to their deaths in some versions, and in others, her desire to steal a baby, in an attempt to show parallels between this figure and Lilith, Adam´s first wife according to tales told by Jewish rabbis |
| Disciplinas: | Literatura y lingüística, Sociología |
| Palabras clave: | Literatura y sociedad, Sociología de la mujer, Judaísmo, Lilith, Caribe, Mitología |
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