Abstract
“Meu tío iauaretê” relates a story about a human which turns into an animal. This transformation shows an identity crossover between Nature, Culture, Language and Politics. Based on this, we propose a reading which consists in deconstruct the human state in front of the animal. The consequences of this transformation changes language, politics and make a new sense of community. Becoming animal in this reading defies the Biopolitics as the set of rules over life. As results of this challenge this situation proposes a Cosmopolitical relationship (Viveiros de Castro, Metafísicas caníbales) between different living beings through the alliance, which resists the anthropogenic machine.
| Translated title of the contribution | Beyond human and animal: A cosmopolitic reading of “meu tio iauaretê” (1969) |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 653-675 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Revista Chilena de Literatura |
| Issue number | 103 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2021 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Literature and Literary Theory