Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program

Faculty Research Forum
A landscape of the erotic in Sara Mesa’s Un amor

Lindsay Rueben
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies

In this talk Professor Rueben will turn to Sara Mesa’s 2020 novel, Un amor, to shed light on the untranslatability of the urban onto the rural, specifically as seen through the protagonist of this novel: a modern, educated city girl who moves to the countryside to translate a novel. By attending to the transient habits of the protagonist as she navigates her new space, a landscape of permanence, eroticism, and desire unfold through the narration that places landscape itself as the site of an imaginative force that renders “freedom” beyond the neoliberal reaches of political economy and the production of future time. 

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