RT Journal Article
T1 Vulnerability and Resistance in Carmen Aguirre’s Mexican Hooker #1
A1 Mesa González, María Cinta
AB In her article, “Vulnerability and Resistance in Carmen Aguirre’s Mexican Hooker#1,” CintaMesa examines Chilean-Canadian playwright and actress Carmen Aguirre’s latest autobiographicalnovel, Mexican Hooker#1, to analyze Latina vulnerability in relation to exile, emigration, gender violenceand stereotypes. The article relies upon Judith Butler’s definition of vulnerability (20), which is excludedfrom official texts. The consequences of these types of trauma, which are written on female bodies, areexpressed through post-traumatic stress disorder. The author expresses the difficulty of acting becauseof her post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the challenges she meets on her way to heal herselfand her community. As Aguirre’s body becomes the repository of many kinds of violence, acting meansresilience for the actress.
PB Purdue University Press
SN 1481-4374
YR 2019
FD 2019-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16467
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16467
LA eng
NO Mesa González, M. C. (2019). Vulnerability and Resistance in Carmen Aguirre’s  Mexican Hooker #1. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 21(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3374.
NO The author wishes to acknowledge the funding provided by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) for the writing of this essay (Research Project FFI2013-47789-C2-1-P).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026