Nuevas cartografías del humanismo a partir de la escritura

Abstract

New Writing’s Cartographies of Humanism: Chilean Literary Resistances: Nona Fernández and Alia Trabucco Testimonial and Fiction Writings of recent past, especially traumatic recent past, have effects and impacts in our complex contemporary times. This confusing, disenchanted, liquid present is the mark of neoliberalism and biopolitics in bodies and minds (“threaten eros”, Byung Chul-Han said). However, we can find an answer to death, pain and ideological scepticism and individualism in a community of affection (Berardi, Emmelhainz), in the pleasure of language, in humor or lightness (Todorov Calvino). The way to access knowledge is diverse and social and poetic memories can be more interesting than historical documents. The trauma of Chilean postdictatorship is written and told by contemporary narrative in a mixture of fantastic and realistic engagement. These writers are part of the postmemory generation (Hirsch). Mapocho (2002) by Nona Fernández and La resta by Alia Trabucco are the books who can help us to draw a possible map of some Chilean literary resistance.

Keywords

• biopolitics
• resistance
• postmemory
• gender
• Chile