Referentes clonados ou corpos ambiguamente habitados

Abstract

This essay intends to investigate how ambiguity in Valência Xavier and Rones Dumke's collage-text entitled Las Meninas works within its "writing with texts" (Landow). My hypothesis is thaf'the use of ambiguity either problematizes or "plays" with hierarchical elements. Or both. Xavier-Dumke's composite is a hybrid text, integrating a visual parody and three short stories that interact with Velázquez' Las Meninas and create verbal and non·verbal interfaces. Ifthe original by Velázquez already questions the nature of representation, the text analized here does it too, deconstructing traditional values. The reading I propose emphasizes the "hipervention aesthetics", contributing to a self reflexivity studied here through the postcolonialist and postmodemist concepts and theories by Ihab Hass~n·; Fredric Jameson, Lucia Santaella and George Landow.