Policy appearance and body politics, an analysis from the costumes and ornaments

Abstract

This article is a brief review of the book by Elizabeth Vejarano Soto, Dresses for the soul. Staging of the appearance and design of the emotions in the nineteenth century, in the novel Maria, by Jorge Isaacs, published in the year 2012. In the book, the author focuses on the analysis of the novel Maria, by Jorge Isaacs, showing the body politics that led to the modernization project in Colombia between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, based on the study of clothing and objects that cover the body. She also develops a glossary of key items that surrounds the body present in the novel, evidencing compliance surveillances physiology, moral and bodily through the staging of appearance. The aim of this review is to give an account of the main lines analized by the author over her work, proposing an approach to the study of body politics present in the novel through the objects that cover the body, as the clothing and ornaments.

Keywords

• escenificación
• corporalidad
• vestuario
• adornos
• apariencia