Abstract

SANCHEZ IDIART, Cecilia. After defeat: Temporalities and aesthetics of common life in Jamás el fuego nunca by Diamela Eltit and El Dock by Matilde Sánchez. CELEHIS [online]. 2016, n.32, pp.125-140. ISSN 2313-9463.

Under the conditions of an extended interrogation of the possibilities and potencies of the living, a broad range of contemporary Latin American fiction aims to imagine new configurations of the common that reformulate the articulations between aesthetics, politics and life. This paper offers a reading of El Dock (1993) by Matilde Sánchez and Jamás el fuego nunca (2007) by Diamela Eltit with regard to the reflection about the defeat of armed struggle organizations formed in Latin America since the sixties in which both novels engage. Through the construction of a singular memory of the militant past, these fictions dismantle revolutionary temporality to elaborate regimes of time open to the contingency of encounters between bodies and propose alternative compositions of the common from a focalization on the politicity of affect. In the emergence of a potency of the living that is not subsumed to the order of the human, the common disassembles the processes of subjectivation of militancy and produces modes of shared life beyond the disciplination and homogenization of bodies.

Keywords : Temporality; Biopolitics; Revolutionary militancy - The common - Contemporary Latin American literature.

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