Luisa Valenzuela’s oeuvre is marked by a fixation with marginal
characters, those often rendered invisible by society and outside
hegemony: the subaltern. Valenzuela’s El Mañana captures echoes of
the past, aggravated in a globalized world, takes them apart and
reassembles them, to then project them into the future. With a clearly
dystopian intention, Valenzuela’s novel reveals how instances of
subjugation under despotism may be re-enacted by following a pattern
of forgetting and repeating. This book examines the novel’s main
fictional characters, who propel the reader to an Argentinean distant
and recent past, present and future, challenging and dismantling their
founding beliefs, and finally reformulating them from below. The novel
is shown to present a decolonial version of the dystopian genre in
which a new configuration of power projects the perils of gender,
class and patriarchal oppression onto the future, along the lines of
coloniality. Ultimately, by addressing themes relevant to the fields
of literary fiction, criticism and theory as well as decolonial and
postcolonial studies, this book maps out the development of
subalternity by performing a situated reading of a major work of
Argentinean literature.
Les mer
Argentinean Subalternity According to Luisa Valenzuela
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781789972542
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Peter Lang
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter