Dressing the Female subject: Goticuqui Fashion in Casa de Muñecas (2012), by Patricia Esteban Erlés
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This article analyzes the influence of Fashion and Gothic in the configuration of the female subject within the anthology of micro-stories Casa de Muñecas (2012), by Patricia Esteban Erlés (Saragossa,1972). Through a review of the dollhouse’s theories, and the role of dolls following Gothic aesthetics, I will approach the anxieties of the postmodern Spanish female subject through Fashion. The characterization of the female protagonists is through the goticuqui dress, which girdles and restricts the body. Those female selves are restricted by the values of a traditional and claustrophobic intra-family life. Dolls and their owners’ rebel against a submissive role and the Gothic aesthetic distorts their normative behaviors.
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