{"title":"Betty Mindlin","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"moqueca-de-maridos-mitos-eroticos-indigenas","title":"Husbands' Moqueca: Indigenous Erotic Myths","description":"STORIES TOLD AND TRANSLATED BY INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND COLLECTED BY BETTY MINDLIN IN THIS RARE COLLECTIVELY AUTHORED BOOK If there is one literary device that Western erotic works have relied on, at least since the Renaissance, it is debasement par excellence. Whether through the use of obscene vocabulary, double-entendre allusions, or immoral imagery, this linguistic operation always presupposes a shift to a symbolic place identified with what is \"low.\" It is, in short, a form of writing that subjects all human experience to the imperatives of the underbelly. Now, to the reader's surprise, the erotic myths narrated in Moqueca de maridos seem to dispense with this dominant convention in modern literary eroticism. However obscenity their stories may be, nothing in them suggests the work of debasement, which contributes to the impression of being confronted with a world without censorship. Indeed, the Indigenous sexual imaginary asserts itself through a freedom of fabrication unparalleled in our culture. Far from evoking an idyllic vision of amorous practices in tribal societies, this unusual repertoire stages unlikely figures such as menstruating men, women without vaginas, mothers who devour their children, brides who have artificial lovers, young women who become pregnant with worms, and even people who copulate with spirits. If these myths are disconcerting, it is because, in them, sex circulates everywhere, moving freely between the profane and the sacred without observing any hierarchy. Hence the disturbing image of the \"voracious head,\" common to numerous stories, which subverts our conventions surrounding the upper and lower parts of the body. In Indigenous mythology, the central motif emerges to highlight the physical vitality of an insatiable organ, which obeys only the impulses of sensuality. Thus conceived, the head ceases to function merely as a cosa mentale (mental thing) and flaunts its condition as matter, opening itself to the inexhaustible potential of eroticism. This remarkable book, written by Betty Mindlin and Indigenous narrators, holds many pleasant surprises for the reader. Reading it provides a new understanding of erotic life. How, then, can one not be enchanted by this unique imagery, in which \"sex truly goes to the head\"?","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175438369020,"sku":"9788577532988","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5eeaa127e0e574d824240de95bc9a071.jpg?v=1778320981"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/betty-mindlin.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}