Sensibilities and human and non-human readjustments in the narrative of Cristina Rivera Garza

I suggest a reflection upon two books that explore a reconstitution and an enlargement of the human and non-human living. Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga (2012) and Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016) offer imaginative openings that depose the individual subject as a paradigm, a...

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Main Author: Keizman, Betina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad de Ciencias Humanas - Universidad Nacional de La Pampa 2020
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Online Access:https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/anclajes/article/view/4192
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Summary:I suggest a reflection upon two books that explore a reconstitution and an enlargement of the human and non-human living. Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga (2012) and Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016) offer imaginative openings that depose the individual subject as a paradigm, and the community as a social group linked to a territory. Those narratives track possible relations between the human and the living, territory and culture, geographic materials and collectivities; but they also display formal creative elements as well as reading and writing processes that are committed with this imaginative opening. The agreement between literature experience and vital confluence calls a regime of sensibilities that combines not only the past and present times but also an experience of virtual times together with a sensitive and cognitive contemporary condition. The enhancement of formal, material and scriptural registers in the production of Rivera Garza inspires an essential hypothesis; that is to say, modulating and renewing the writing is the sine qua non condition to explore new modes of conception of the un(human) subject and the community. Propongo una reflexión en torno a dos libros que exploran una reconstitución y ampliación de lo viviente humano y no humano. El mal de la taiga (2012) y Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016) de Cristina Rivera Garza proponen una apertura imaginativa que depone el sujeto individual como paradigma, incluso la colectividad entendida como mero conjunto social ligado a un territorio. Estas narraciones rastrean relaciones posibles entre humano y viviente, territorio y cultura, geografías materiales y colectividad; pero también despliegan elementos formales, productivos y procesos de lectura y escritura que se comprometen con esta apertura imaginativa. El pacto entre experiencia literaria y confluencia vital apela a un régimen de sensibilidades que conjuga los tiempos idos, los tiempos presentes y una experiencia de tiempos virtuales acoplada a ...