O insólito como estratégia discursiva em "Oso Blanco", de Mayra Santos-Febres.

This paper aims to analyze the short story "Oso Blanco", by Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres, in order to perceive uncanny elements, which work as discursive strategy that reveals the communion of bodies unable to perform tangible approximations. The uncanny seems to constitute an epistemological metaphor in the image of the woman imprisoned in a bureaucratic cycle, or in the arm that gains autonomy from its body, or even in the transformation of the penitentiary building into the narrator and protagonist of the plot. The senses of the unusual gain historical and political dimensions, pointing out, as epistemological metaphors, to the fragmented subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]