El cuerpo nocturno (Los imaginarios de la corporalidad y lo político en la literatura)
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Rev. aportes de la comunicación
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Este artículo analiza el cruce entre literatura y política a partir del cuestionamiento sobre cuáles son las condiciones de posibilidad para que se origine una literatura política. A partir de esa pregunta, reflexiona sobre la literatura política, no en su dimensión de denuncia sino a partir de lo que plantea Jacques Rancière sobre el disenso de lo político y una literatura que desafía lo que una comunidad puede imaginar como posible. Se plantea que lo político en la literatura opera como un disenso que se manifiesta en el cuestionamiento sobre lo que una generación se permite imaginar como verdadero. Siguiendo ese marco teórico, el ensayo trata de pensar cómo las literaturas de género (terror, fantástico y especialmente la ficción weird) se vuelven literaturas políticas por excelencia en tanto siempre están cuestionando el imaginario desde el cual la subjetividad media con la realidad.
This article analyzes the intersection between literature and politics by questioning what are the conditions of possibility for a political literature to originate. Starting from that question, it reflects on political literature, not in its complaint dimension but from what Jacques Rancière raises about political dissent and a literature that challenges what a community can imagine as possible. It is proposed that the political in literature operates as a dissent that manifests itself in the questioning of what a generation allows itself to imagine as true. Following this theoretical framework, the essay tries to think about how genre literature (horror, fantastic and especially weird fiction) become political literatures par excellence insofar as they are always questioning the imaginary from which subjectivity mediates with reality.
This article analyzes the intersection between literature and politics by questioning what are the conditions of possibility for a political literature to originate. Starting from that question, it reflects on political literature, not in its complaint dimension but from what Jacques Rancière raises about political dissent and a literature that challenges what a community can imagine as possible. It is proposed that the political in literature operates as a dissent that manifests itself in the questioning of what a generation allows itself to imagine as true. Following this theoretical framework, the essay tries to think about how genre literature (horror, fantastic and especially weird fiction) become political literatures par excellence insofar as they are always questioning the imaginary from which subjectivity mediates with reality.
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No. 37