Her body and other parties, by Carmen Maria Machado

If recently I was talking about Argentina Samantha Schweblin As one of the great references of modern narrative, this time we climbed thousands of kilometers in the American continent to find the American Carmen Maria Machado.

And at both ends of the most extensive of the continents we enjoy two vertiginous feathers, endowed with that special capacity of someone who indulges in the story and its transience as a narrative tool capable of suggesting or projecting in the magical synthesis of history and language.

In the case of this book His body and other parties, Carmen María approaches feminism with its necessary protest interest, marked above all from the physical and with an interesting surrealist point that arises from the integration of this conscientious intention with the natural propensity of an author usually embarked on fantastic stories or science fiction. Something like sequels free of The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

The point is that in the conjunction of intentions, with the vibrant rhythm of the brief and its magical brightness of symbols that end up being the foundations of what is narrated, the reading advances with that taste of the harmonic when a volume of stories end up playing the same symphony .

Feminism from the paranormal, an undoubted reflection of the process of estrangement and alienation that accompanies the evolution of a society that promises integration of women but that, going down to the mud of reality always ends up getting stuck in many puddles. Women in the midst of modern apocalypse, or as old biblical plagues, that is, nothing that does not come out of their eternal assumption of their natural condition in the face of a world determined to renounce the feminine. Stories from the afterlife for other women who seek the impossible justice of their bodies occupied by the violence of a sex that, paradoxically, seeks the perpetuity of the species, according to moral canons. Extrasensory powers as feminine evolutions necessary to meet the demands of her universe and that ultimately grants the gift of complete understanding of everything, even the sexual.

Without forgetting an acid humor (the kind that ends up arousing disappointments after the first laugh), and with a novel intention of addressing the most intimate of women projected towards various fantasy assumptions, this volume of eight stories ends up composing an interesting feminism project . A feminism extended towards such atypical genres such as terror, fantasy, science fiction and with that residue of reflection that can always be extracted from a good work that wanders from the fertile imagination, but that makes use of its external focus to observe our world with greater perspective.

You can now buy the book Su cuerpo y otros fiestas, the volume of stories by Carmen María Machado, here:

Her body and other parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
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