Estudio crítico sobre animalidad en tres relatos de la generación del 30

Abstract

In contemporary literary criticism, there is a great interest around animality and how it problematizes, through fiction, the rigid human/animal dichotomy. These studies survey how we understand, use, love, kill, represent and coexist with animal from a perspective that displaces the anthropocentric vision of the world to reveal how literature, in addition to being a privileged space for art, become in a vehicle for the expression of the animal. In this sense, the present work proposes a rereading of the narrative of the Generación del 30 from the perspective of animality, specifically in “El guaraguao” (1930) of Joaquín Gallegos Lara, and in “Guásinton” (1938) and Los Sangurimas (1934) of José de la Cuadra. In these stories, is going to be studied the representation of the animal and the experimentation with forms that reflect a multiple subjectivity. The study will base on the reflections of Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, among others. In this way, is going to be established the existence of lines of flight, that demonstrate an unconscious content of expression of animal subjectivity, in the frame of the process of becoming-animal.