Devenir-mujer de Elsa e Hipólita en Los siete locos (1929) y Los lanzallamas (1931), de Roberto Arlt

Abstract

This research, entitled Becoming Women: Elsa and Hipólita in Roberto Arlt's Los siete locos (1929) and Los lanzallamas (1931), is guided by the following question: What literary devices does Arlt use to construct the becoming-woman of Elsa and Hipólita in Los siete locos (1929) and Los lanzallamas (1931)? The main objective is to define and theoretically substantiate the concepts of becoming and becoming-woman, based on the philosophical proposal of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, which they present and develop, especially in A Thousand Plateaus (1980, 2004). The methodology that will guide this study is hermeneutics, according to Paul Ricoeur in his book Time and Narrative I: The Configuration of Time in the Historical Narrative (1995), in which he develops the theory of triple mimesis. As we will have the opportunity to show, Elsa constitutes a becoming-woman with decisions that, in our day, would be problematic, while Hipólita becomes a woman by being part of the minority and becoming what being a woman means to her. Both embody processes of escape, autonomy, and resistance that place them at the center of a critical reading of female subjectivity.