Du postmodernisme au post-humanisme : présent et futur du concept d’hybridité

Abstract

This paper analyses the evolution of the concept of hybridity in Latin American literature from the postmodernist aesthetics to post-humanist. First, it demonstrates that this notion, more than any other conceptual tool, can cover all of the trends common to postmodernist corpus and details five axes (generic hybridity, dialogical hybridity, hybridity of time and space, hybridity of the characters, and identitarian hybridity). Then, it looks at the figure of the cyborg and its presence in contemporary Latin American literature. If now the concept of hybridity remains operative to analyse post-humanist works, it may also seems somewhat narrow to explain these new post-humanist phenomena.

Keywords

• hybridity
• latin american literature
• postmodernism
• post-humanism