Pour un érotisme kitsch dans Yo-Yo Boing ! Bouleverser la corporalité dans les rôles sociaux
Kitsch Eroticism in Yo­Yo Boing ! Upsetting Corporality in Social Roles

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to illustrate the route towards the sexual appropriation of the female body in the literary fiction of the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi (1957 -). The case of Yo-Yo Boing!, belonging to the Puerto Rican diaspora literature, problematizes the perception of the body in connection with the (de)construction of a social identity. First, an overview of feminist issues in the Carribbean will lead us to better understand the choice made in the representation of the human body by the writer. Later, we will look at the self-eroticism generated by the protagonist’s body, both source of pleasure and disgust, and on the way in which it allows to upset the male authority over the female corporality. Thus, the radicalization of the enjoyment and sexualization of the female body, in a context like that of Puerto Rico, where hybridism is the dominant, becomes not only a reappropriation of biopolitical freedom, but a foreshadow of the gender binarism’s deconstruction toward a queer era.

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