The “Boom of the Subaltern” in Recent Mexican Literature – Perspectives on Animality

Authors

  • Renata Farias de Felippe Universdade Federal de Santa Maria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.1.253-266

Keywords:

animalities, contemporaneity, Mexican literature, Hispano-American literature, othernesses

Abstract

Voices of contemporary literature have been drawing attention to the “strange familiarity” between non-human and human animals, a narrowing that shakes Humanist precepts and offers a relevant point of view for the discussion about othernesses. The questions derived from such contiguity offer strategic perspectives to (re)think literary productions that deal with both former inequalities and post-modern demands, as mentioned by Néstor Garcia Canclini. Considering these elements, this study aims to discuss the issue of animality as a kind of interpretative key capable of providing new analytical angles on repeated topics in current Hispano-American literature, more specifically in contemporary Mexican literature. The development of this analysis will have the novella Salón de belleza (1994), by Mario Bellatin, and the short story “Guerra en los basureros” (2013), by Guadalupe Nettel, as fictional references.

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Author Biography

Renata Farias de Felippe, Universdade Federal de Santa Maria

Professora do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (desde 2010), pós-doutora pelo Programa de Literatura e Cultura da Universidade Federal da Bahia (2017), doutora em Teoria Literária pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2009).

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Published

2018-04-27

How to Cite

Felippe, R. F. de. (2018). The “Boom of the Subaltern” in Recent Mexican Literature – Perspectives on Animality. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 28(1), 253–266. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.1.253-266

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2018): A Questão dos Gêneros Literários na Modernidade

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Varia

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