Monstruosidad posthumana: resistencia diálogica y corporal en Impuesto a la carne de Diamela Eltit

Abstract

As Ariel Dorfman stated in Imaginación y violencia, Latin America’s violent past has had a big influence on its literature and has shaped its collective imagination. Likewise, the natural fear towards technology expressed in other world literature classics has been affected in Latin America by this turbulent past, full of political and economic experiments. Thus, Latin American literature, instead of imagining the utopic northern Harawayan cyborg, turns to its dialogical strength and its corporeal memory to join posthuman criticism. This article will analyze Diamela Eltit’s novel, Impuesto a la carne, where technology, still conceived as a threatening machine associated with the memory of a violent past, turns the body into an area of conflict, a scientific and technological public space, a biological reminder of a population whose last bastion of privacy has been invaded.