Dirty Trilogy of Havana, by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez: The Sexualization of the Canon

Abstract

This article studies why the characters of Dirty trilogy of Havana do not emerge from the memorable and messianic time of the Revolution, but from a kind of setback without a past, present or future that rejects the ideological doctrines of the Cuban State. The article also analyzes why Pedro Juan -the narrator of Dirty trilogy of Havana- is a dirty body that narrates his subsistence from an impregnable sexuality that accentuates his condition as a depraved male. Finally, the article addresses the moral taxonomy of Pedro Juan and the abominable behavior of a body that, subjugated by the ideological structures of power, violates the ethical constraints of the State through a symbolic order that postulates sexuality, not as desirable and sacred object, but as resistance that deflects and expels. To analyze the previous assumptions, the analysis will be approached from theoretical approaches that explore the disjunctions between ideology and power, subject and State, perversion and sexuality.