THE AVATAR IN PANAMA - Theses - Flinders University

3.2 Double Whammy: Mixed Doubles The Avatar in Panamatransformaciones, mutaciones, and materializarse. 52 The transformationitself however, may involve the principal character’s partial or totaldisappearance, or that of the object doubled (object in the grammaticaland not the material sense). There is a recurrence of vocabularyexpressing transparency, the shadowy, the indeterminate, theundefined, and the fleeting, for example, esfumarse, transparencia,rostro amorfo, envuelta en niebla, una visión borrosa. 53In the case of partial or complete disappearance, personalitiesmay become decentred and subsequently disintegrate totally. Beforethe character’s transformation is complete there may be some type ofsubstitution of image, characters, idea, or reflection. The substitutionitself may replace the material doubling. Once this transformation iscomplete, the nueva apariencia of the character or object is oftenmentioned. 54Encore: Same Circumstance, Similar ScenarioAlthough Jaramillo Levi's stories have emphasised recurringtypes of protagonists, it is not the character who provokes the creativeimpetus for the majority of his fiction. As Jaramillo Levi states, the initialidea or origins of his stories begin not with a subject but with a setting orsituation; he remarks that he rarely begins writing a story with a definedcharacter in mind. 55 Clearly this writing routine facilitates the incidenceof similar scenarios and circumstances reappearing and several havealready been studied as those particular situations are not onlyinextricably to each other but are owned by certain characters who havetheir origin in Jaramillo Levi's biography. They include a maleacademic/writer who after a (usually job-related) protracted absenceabroad, is/was having/had a sexual relationship with a notably youngerwoman/student.One of the most powerful replicated circumstances is the rapeor violent sexual assault. This scene takes place on the beach in“Piensan que no tuve un buen motivo” (me hiciste tuya por la fuerzasobre la playa), and in “Recordando desde el tedio” (Desperté sobra laarena […] Te odié al tenerte dentro […] el placer que te daba contra mivoluntad), but occurs in a clearing in “Vergüenza” (Sólo quince años yya el más alto se me viene encima. Gritó al ver este otro cuerpo,velludo, mostrándome se desnudez). In “Ofertorio”, a sexual act isperformed on the sand (Viéndolos acopular”) but whether it is52 See Appendix C Rigidez, Convertirse.53 See Appendix C Tremor, Transformación, Desintegrarse.54See 3.3 substitution 247.55See Appendix A1 question 9.199