Margo Glantz, Narrating the Fascination

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https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0037

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Margo Glantz, Latin American narrative, fashion, capitalism

Abstract

Toward the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties, Margo Glantz (1930) starts publishing, in Mexican newspapers and magazines, chronicles that discuss fashion in relation to films, painting and literature. At the beginning of the 21st century, the subject matter of fashion enters the sphere of fiction and becomes a topic. “Zapatos: andante con variaciones” lends itself eloquently to reflecting upon the fictionalization materialized through what we shall call narrating the fascination. Glantz builds a story about the fantasies generated by consumers having access to luxury items regardless their economic position. Therefore, it is productive to analyze this narrative taking as our basis Walter Benjamin’s view of capitalism as a religion.

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Julieta Viú, Universidad Nacional de Rosario – CONICET

Julieta Viú holds a PhD in Humanities and Arts, with a major in Literature, from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). She is a postdoctoral fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [CONICET]). Member of the Institute of Critical Studies in Humanities (IECH-UNR) and of the Academic Network of Teaching and Research in Latin American Literature Katatay.

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2015-11-21

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Viú, J. (2015). Margo Glantz, Narrating the Fascination. Philologica Canariensia, 21, 133–149. https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0037

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