Patricia Esteban Erlés’ Casa de muñecas The supernatural and the feminine object

Abstract

From a rewriting of the genres of the supernatural, which includes the fantastic, the horror and the unusual, Patricia Esteban Erlés, in Casa de muñecas, proposes a metaphorical construction that links the supernatural elements with concerns about the female subject, a created object socially since childhood, through a system of conditioning and preconceived images, which objectify women, that is, they reduce the individual to a manipulable object, to an image determined by their sexual role of reproduction, seduction or care. This work attempts to establish the meaning of the figure of the doll in the vision of Patricia Esteban Erlés: the elements of construction, both descriptive and metaphorical or symbolic; the intertextual references and their purpose in the aesthetic conception of the work, and the elements of elaboration of the effects projected in the texts and the resources to generate them.