Body and Bolero. La Lupe: A Cultural Artifact Approach

Abstract

The body is the place where subjectivity is inscribed. There is no subjectivity without a body. Beyond political theories, studies on this category also open to perspectives that connect it with life and desire. The erotic body thus constitutes a drift that dialogues with the Policies of Affection and Cultural Studies. Our work is based on a phenomenon, thought of as “cultural artifact”, which originates in music and explodes into other fields of thought, generating productivity. The objective of this article is to analyze categories such as body and eroticism and their relationship with the bolero, based on a figure that constitutes an “exceptional personality” in which life and work are mixed to give rise to a cultural artifact: La Lupe. Our corpus is made up of formats that will allow you to read this productivity that La Lupe represents in Latin America during the 20th century. We will start with the theoretical proposals of Roger Dadoun on eroticism, body and desire, and the discussions on “originality” by Gilles Deleuze, in dialogue with different readings on the bolero that will allow us to understand the previous categories, taking into account the specificity they have within the Latin American imaginary.