Interactions between the national and the corporeal

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Ana Quiroga Álvarez

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how Arantxa faces her condition as a disabled person in the series Patria. The main objective is to illustrate how Arantxa communicates with her caregivers through limited gestures allowed by her paralysis. At the same time, this essay seeks to demonstrate how Arantxa rejects her mother's ideology, as she turns against her through the process of subjection. To this effect, the body of Arantxa will be at the center of the analysis, developed through a qualitative approach. As Arantxa tries to achieve the subjection, she faces two kinds of resistance: an internal resistance, determined by her body’s physical limitations; and an external resistance, crystallized into the figures of Miren and Celeste, who ultimately influence the way in which Arantxa interacts with her social setting. Despite the control exerted on Arantxa by her caregivers, Arantxa imposes her wish to resolve the conflict in a non-violent way. Using the body as the centre of the analysis, this paper delves into other questions such as national identity or the questioning of violence.

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MON. Representations of Spain and Latin America in audiovisual productions.

Author Biography

Ana Quiroga Álvarez, Doctora en Comunicación Audiovisual por la UCM

International Doctorate on Audiovisual Communication by the Complutense University, Madrid (UCM), which included a “stage de doctorat" (placement) at the Institut de la Communication et des Médias (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), under the direction of Dr. Marie-France Chambat-Houillon.

My Thesis ("The consumed myth. An Analysis of womanliness through the close-up: a dialogue between Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and the French television in the sixties") was awarded a “Cum Laude" qualification under the direction of Dr. Laia Falcón Díaz-Aguado.

Specializing on audiovisual languages, lately I have been working on the following subjects:

- Narrative hybridisations between cinema and television.

- Cualitative approach on the cultural industries.  

- The body as object of  mutations and symptomatic reflect of its environment. 

- Gender studies through a queer approach.

How to Cite

Quiroga Álvarez, A. (2021). Interactions between the national and the corporeal. Miguel Hernandez Communication Journal, 12, 311-331. https://doi.org/10.21134/mhjournal.v12i.1327

References

No entiendo bien este apartado. Este texto no consta de ninguna cita aparte, sí de notas al pie de página y de citas de términos concretos. Paso a recopilar todos los términos o pequeñas frases citadas. El término de "non-violence" ha sido referenciado a lo largo del texto pero no se incluye en esta lista ya que forma parte misma del título de la obra que lo estudia, por lo cual no pertenece a una página en concreto, sino a todas.

"impuestos revolucionarios" (Corcuera, A. 2017).

"diversidad funcional" (Guzmán, P. y Platero, R. L. 2012:125)

"collective responsibility" ("responsabilidad colectiva") (Knight, A. 2013:17).

"Aprisionada en un cuerpo inerte. Una mente cautiva en una armadura de carne. En eso se había transformado" (Aramburu, F. 2016: 534) .

"Son pobres. Sabrán reconocerlo" (Aramburu, F. 2016: 66).

la "mirada masculina" (Kaplan, A. 1983)

"female networks" (redes de mujeres) (Selisker, S. 2015: 511)

"kinship perfomances" (o "comportamientos de afinidad") (Braswell, H. 2015: 246)

"ungrievable lives" (se podría traducir como "vidas que no tienen que ser lamentadas") (Simplican, S. C. 2015: 230)

"la non violence et la passivité équivalent à la complicité" ("la no-violencia y la pasividad equivalen a la complicidad") (Ascher, I. y Butler, J. 2014: 27).

"ethical demand" ("demanda ética") (Butler, J. 2012: 135)

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