Homoérotisme lesbien et rénovation du champ littéraire dans les années 30 : Victoria Ocampo, Virginia Woolf et l’effet papillon

Abstract

Literary history has shown little interest in the issues of homoeroticism in the emergence of feminist and lesbian networks in literature in the 1930s, particularly at the international level. In this article, we will consider this question from a queer and intersectional rereading of the relationship between the Argentinian writer and editor Victoria Ocampo and the British author Virginia Woolf. The objective of this work is to contribute to the rereading of the lesbian canon, in/visibilized in its “glass closet” since the articulation between female homosociality and the construction of a sexo-dissident positioning. We hypothesize that homoeroticism in the relationships between women authors –which has often been relegated to the rank of an insignificant anecdote on the political-cultural level– has, like the “butterfly effect”, participated in the structural transformation of the literary field of that time.

Keywords

• Victoria Ocampo
• Virginia Woolf
• homoeroticism
• literary history
•  1930s