Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government(NRF-2008-362-A00003)
Iberoamérica (이베로아메리카)
- Volume 18 Issue 2
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- Pages.271-295
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- 2016
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- 1229-9111(pISSN)
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Nuda vida y espacio límite en La transmigración de los cuerpos de Yuri Herrera
- Michel, Gerardo Gomez (Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies)
- Received : 2016.10.31
- Accepted : 2016.12.16
- Published : 2016.12.30
Abstract
In dialogue with the concepts of State of Emergency and Bare Life developed by Giorgio Agamben (1998), this paper explores the novel La transmigración de los cuerpos (2013) by Yuri Herrera, to see how the author builds a narrative space where the logic of the state of emergency is a detonator of the fictional plot. This analysis underlines how Herrera articulates a poetics of precariousness and violence to draw a map of desolation and despair recognizable through the cardinal points of death, fear, corruption and an agonizing will to survive. In this unnamed universe the characters' bodies are subject to violence from the State and from criminals.