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Unexpected Organs: The Futurist Body and Its Maternal Parts
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2020-10-01 , DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2020.1819586
Amanda Recupero 1
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Abstract In Mafarka il futurista, F.T. Marinetti creates his new Futurist body by obscuring the role of the maternal function. By considering the specific aggression against what Marinetti codes as maternal, I offer a new way of thinking about the gender dynamics of the novel and Futurism’s relation to the reproductive female body. I suggest that the maternal function—as the ability to give life—is a necessary capability that the Futurist must acquire. However, as the protagonist approximates maternal reproductivity, the female body takes on Futurist properties, namely virility, pleasure in the risk of death, and the capacity for physical violence. A hypersexualized female body acts as a decoy to obscure the presence of female reproductivity and its potential to undermine Marinetti’s Futurist project. A closer look at Marinetti’s confusion of the reproductive and digestive systems reveals the Futurist’s dependency on an unacknowledged maternal technology of reproduction.

中文翻译:

意想不到的器官:未来主义的身体及其母体部分

摘要 在 Mafarka il futurista 中,FT Marinetti 通过模糊母性功能的作用创造了他的新未来主义身体。通过考虑对马里内蒂编码为母性的特定侵略,我提供了一种新的思考方式来思考小说的性别动态以及未来主义与生殖女性身体的关系。我认为母性功能——作为赋予生命的能力——是未来主义者必须获得的必要能力。然而,由于主人公接近母性生殖,女性身体呈现出未来主义的特性,即男子气概、死亡风险中的快乐以及身体暴力的能力。一个性欲亢进的女性身体充当诱饵,掩盖了女性生殖能力的存在及其破坏马里内蒂未来主义项目的潜力。
更新日期:2020-10-01
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