Se mira, pero no se toca. Ojo colonizador y piel indígena en la ciencia ficción hispanoamericana contemporánea (Castagnet, Barragán, Paz Soldán)

Abstract

In contemporary science fiction, two types of narratives on the human can be distinguished: some narratives, surreptitiously conservative, consolidate the "capital reality", while others are bearers of a non-conformist marginality. I propose to associate the idea of an 'eye-centric' science fiction with the first type on narrative, which enthroned the eye, and the idea of a “somato-centric” production with the latter, as it claims the body as a place of abject and “committed” enunciation. The poetics of Castagnet, Barragán and Paz Soldán point to this Latin American continental tendency towards a science fiction that is both post-human and post-colonial.

Keywords

• body
• science fiction
• abject
• postcolonial
• posthuman