Número 20
El universo de los Bros Hernández
Burning Down the House: The Shadow Feminism of Izzy Ortiz Ruebens
In this essay, I analyze two stories featuring the character Isabel Maria “Izzy” Ortiz Ruebens – “Flies on the Ceiling” (1989) and the serialized story “Maggie” (2001- 2004) – through the lenses of shadow feminism, failure, queer autonomy, and other theories of the “antisocial”. I argue that Izzy’s reclusive, capricious, haunted, “witchy” behavior may not be simply tragic or antisocial as some critics have characterized it. Instead, her character trajectory and relationships with other characters illustrate opportunities for distinct modes of friendship and womanhood that may also be liberatory in their radical resistance to intelligibility and efficiency.
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