“A Complete Woman, but One Who Hates Women”: Un psicópata del tercer género en A Son of the Circus, de John Irving.
Author(s) -
Cecilia Díaz Marín
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
odisea revista de estudios ingleses
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i17.352
Subject(s) - humanities , gender identity , sociology , gender studies , identity (music) , art , aesthetics
espanolEste articulo explora las complejas circunstancias que convierten en un psicopata transexual a Rahul Rai, personaje de la novela A Son of the Circus, de John Irving. Los abusos sexuales a los que lo somete su tia y tutora en su infancia, junto con un conflicto de identidad de genero mal resuelto influenciado por el modelo de tercer genero autoctono de la India –lxs hijras- contribuyen al desarrollo de una sociopatia que Rahul canalizara dedicandose a asesinar prostitutas en los burdeles de Bombay y Londres. EnglishThis article explores the complex circumstances that lead Rahul Rai, from the novel A Son of the Circus, by John Irving, to become a transsexual serial killer. A victim of sexual abuse when he was a child, and in deep conflict with his gender identity (which is strongly influenced by the Indian third sex option, the hijras), Rahul becomes a sociopath who kills prostitutes in the brothels of London and Bombay for over two decades.
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