Abstract

RETANA, Camilo. The wake of the bones: Biopolitic and necropolitic topics in Three Latin American recent Texts. Rev. filol. linguíst. Univ. Costa Rica [online]. 2022, vol.48, n.1, e48376. ISSN 2215-2628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v48i1.48376.

In the following article I task myself with inquiring the directions followed by the corpses in three recent Latin American texts: la parte de los crímenes contained in 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Chicas muertas by Selva Almada and Voyager by Nona Fernández. The intuition that leads the text is that certain literary materials make of the dead body a place of response and interrogation of the foundational ontologies that belong to the current bio and necropolitical orders. In the literature examined, the corpses carry the index of several violences but at the same time are carriers of a critical strength and a contumacy that those violences do not manage to soothe.

Keywords : biopolitics; necropolitics; Latin American literature; body; memory.

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