- Paula García-Rodríguez: “Usando mal el cuerpo feminizado mediante el horror corporal”
Description of the activity.
From 9 to 11 June, the University of Málaga held its 10th Doctoral Seminars, a conference that brings together PhD students in the fields of Linguistics, Literature, and Translation to present and discuss their ongoing research. As part of the programme, Paula García-Rodríguez delivered a paper on the use of body horror as an strategy to explore cultural anxieties surrounding the body, identity, and otherness.
My presentation focused on how the human body, far from being a neutral or purely biological entity, has historically functioned as a politically charged site of representation. In particular, she examined how body horror, a genre marked by the transformation, distortion, and breakdown of the body, can be mobilised to critically engage with the ways in which certain bodies are marginalised or rendered abject within dominant cultural frameworks. Through this approach, the paper aimed to highlight how horror aesthetics can offer subversive and politically charged ways of reimagining the body, particularly in relation to gender and power.