SENSIBILIDADES Y REARTICULACIONES HUMANAS Y NO HUMANAS EN LA NARRATIVA DE CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

• Published in: Anclajes : revista del Instituto de Análisis Semiótico del Discurso Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 189 - 203
• Main Author: Keizman, Betina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Santa Rosa Universidad Nacional de la Pampa 01.09.2020; Instituto de Investigaciones Literarias y Discursivas (IILyD). Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa; Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
• Subjects: Community; Comunidad; Comunidade; Creativity; Cristina Rivera Garza; humanismo; Imaginación; Imagination; Imaginação; LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS; Mexican literature; Narrativa recente; Narrativa reciente; Narratives; Posthumanism; Posthumanismo; Pós; Recent Narrative; Register; Rivera Garza, Cristina (1964- ); Taiga & tundra; Writing processes; Comunidad; Recent Narrative; Comunidade; Posthumanismo; Pós-humanismo; Narrativa reciente; Imaginação; Imagination; Cristina Rivera Garza; Narrativa recente; Posthumanism; Community; Imaginación
• ISSN: 0329-3807; 1851-4669; 1851-4669
• DOI: 10.19137/anclajes-2020-24312

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.