CLEOPATRA: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMINE IN LA VIRGEN CABEZA BY GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA

From the archetype Cleopatra to the figure of Cleo

Abstract

Summary

he following article is organized in four sections, a first introductory part where I point out the importance of the process of resemiotization of the archetype Cleopatra and its relocation in the novel The Virgin Head as a lesbian and queer character, through an approach that I call transbaroque. In the second section, "From the archetype Cleopatra to the figure of Cleo" I make an overview of the cultural and literary productions of the archetype of Cleopatra in its multiple drifts as total femme, figure of power, baroque and literary etc. n another section: "Enunciation and subalternity" I examine the dispute over ownership of the enunciation between the central character Cleo, with her lover and journalist Qüity, the above through a complexity of literary modes of production. Finally. I present a conclusive part and final hypotheses.