yegua_blanca 's review for:

Variations on the Body by María Ospina

4.0

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These stories briefly explore the consequences of womanhood, living in these bodies, for women that live in and at times enact different kinds of violence and try to maintain themselves within these circumstances. Ospina creates stories that are rife for analysis, that invite the reader, in their brevity, to think about the erasure of subjectivity, the dissolution of a self, the voyeuristic gaze.. Saving Young Ladies stood out in particular, posing interesting questions about desire and looking. I look forward to reading what Ospina publishes next.