Acknowledgments Preamble 1. The Case of the Speaking Statue: Ariel and the Magisterial Rhetoric of the Latin American Essay 2. Dona Barbara Writes the Plain 3. The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/The Rhetoric of Dictatorship 4. Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice 5. Los reyes: Cortazar's Mythology of Writing 6. Biografia de un cimarron and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution 7. Literature and Exile: Carpentier's \"Right of Sanctuary\" \"Meta-End,\" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Translated, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes Notes Index

The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

Im Gegensatz zu den USA muss bei einer Beschaftigung mit der Kolonialgeschichte Lateinamerikas ein fundamentaler Unterschied bedacht werden: Die Kultur der USA grundet auf Siedlungsprozessen, und somit stehen an ihrem Ursprung wesentlich die Wunsche und Traume der Siedler, die auf das in ihrer Wahrnehmung unbewohnte und gelobte Land projiziert wurden.

Von Malinche zu Frida Kahlo: Territorium und Gender am Beispiel Mexikos

Im Gegensatz zu den USA muss bei einer Beschaftigung mit der Kolonialgeschichte Lateinamerikas ein fundamentaler Unterschied bedacht werden: Die Kultur der USA grundet auf Siedlungsprozessen und somit stehen an ihrem Ursprung wesentlich die Wunsche und Traume der Siedler, die auf das in ihrer Wahrnehmung unbewohnte und gelobte Land projiziert wurden.

Von Malinche zu Frida Kahlo

This article questions the assumptions of Darwinian “biopoetics,” as well as the premises of Foucauldian biopolitics. While poetic Darwinism still searches for poetic patterns capable of perfecting humans, according to Foucault, bios is still dependent on external constraints (such as politics, economy, and other social factors), and these external determinations form the target of his critique. In searching for an onto-epistemology that goes beyond human exceptionalism while ensuring, within the entanglement of bios and poetics, that both bios and poetics are asserted in their own right, I propose the concept of “bio-poetics.” I will discuss this concept in the context of Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological, Donna Haraway’s “situated knowledge” and Roberto Esposito’s non-vitalistic and affirmative concept of “biopower.” According to recent theories of “New Materialism,” literature is a material practice that makes it possible to write life experiences that exceed life-forms. A bio-poetical reading challenges the economic politics of global capitalism, as shown in the example of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah (2006/2007) and Roberto Bolano’s 2666 (2004). In addition, I also intend to argue that visual and literary aesthetics understood as “aisthesis,” i.e., sensitive experience, intensity, and affective mode of thinking, is the realm where the dynamic multiplicity of life inscribes itself. Thus, an aesthetics of the sensible, as explored by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Serres, and Brian Massumi has political relevance, as Jacques Ranciere has also argued.

Vittoria Borsò

Papers

Von Malinche zu Frida Kahlo: Territorium und Gender am Beispiel Mexikos

Von Malinche zu Frida Kahlo

Bio-poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life