Abstract
This paper will analyze the representations of the body of the "Latin American" in two significant texts of Latin American literature of the twentieth century’s last decade: El asco. Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador (1997), by Horacio Castellanos Moya, and El Rey de la Habana (1999), by Pedro Juan Gutierrez. In no way this essay proposes a textual analysis of literature: these books will serve to find new corporality representations in the social world of globalized neoliberal era. Literature will enable to discover new concepcions of the body, new identities and subjectivities, a new imagery of a Latin American body represented as the one of an animal. We will folllow the paths of this bodys through their territories to finally find this abject body of literature in all the art of the period, relate the obscenity and violence of these bodies with the one that televisión promotes and finally see the strong political implications of this kind of literature that refuses to be described as a political one.
Highlights
El cuerpo, dice David Le Breton, es una “materia simbólica”, una “construcción social y cultural”
This paper will analyze the representations of the body of the “Latin American” in two significant texts of Latin American literature in the last decade of the twentieth century’s: El asco
We will follow the paths of this bodies through their territories to find this abject body of literature in all the art of the period, relate the obscenity and violence of these bodies with the one that television promotes and, see the strong political implications of this kind of literature that refuses to be described as a political one
Summary
De ningún modo se trata de un análisis textual o intrínsecamente literario: los textos servirán para poder encontrar una nueva corporalidad en el mundo social de la era globalizada y neoliberal. La literatura permitirá descubrir una nueva puesta en relieve de las concepciones biológicas del cuerpo, nuevas identidades y subjetividades, nuevos imaginarios respecto de un cuerpo entendido cada vez más como un cuerpo-animal. Se seguirán los trayectos de esta corporalidad por los territorios en que transitan, para finalmente encontrar el cuerpo abyecto de la literatura en todo el arte del periodo, poner en relación la obscenidad y la violencia de estos cuerpos con los de la televisión y, por último, ver las fuertes implicancias políticas de una literatura que, en principio, no se propone como literatura política
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