1. Compulsión animal, terror apocalíptico. Cuatro novelas de Ana Paula Maia.
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Veraguas Caripan, Ignacio and Pastén López, Ignacio
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In the following article we track the traces of Edgar Wilson and Bronco Gil, characters in the narrative world of Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguaçu, 1977), in order to think about the cadaverous economy that capital impregnates in a subjectivity exposed to the everyday life of a borderline violence. To do so, we dwell on the plot of De ganados y de hombres (2013); Así en la tierra como debajo de la tierra (2017); Entierre a sus muertos (2019); and De cada quinientos un alma (2022). We consider that Maia’s narrative, far from orbiting in centripetal geographies of Brazil, relocates the trope of the slaughterhouse, erected by Esteban Echeverría’s homonymous novel (1871), to gravitate on the possible advances of extractivist neoliberalism on a planetary level. Drawing on what Isabel Quintana (2019) has noted as the signifying emptying of the slaughterhouse in Maia’s grammar, we propose that the four novels operate from a subjective affect that shifts Wilson and Gil between two courses of the human-animal discursive field: Between the assertive nihilism characteristic of developmentalist economies (Wendy Brown) and peripheral modernities (Homi K. Bhabha); and impulsive affect with the animal other in contexts of distress (Sara Ahmed). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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