VOCES Y ESPACIOS DE RESISTENCIA EN COMETIERRA, DE DOLORES REYES

Abstract

This work initially makes an approach to some specific characteristics of fantastic literature as a mean to execute a reading of the novel Cometierra of the Argentinian author Dolores Reyes understood within the framework of this genre. Furthermore, it is proposed that this type of narrative presents disruptive elements and characteristics that operate as confluence passages amongst opposite words. This process allows Cometierra to uncover voices, spaces and bodies that have been silenced, as they problematize and irrupt the patriarchal normativity. Hence, it will be shown that the use of fantastic mechanisms in Cometierra enables the apparition of subaltern voices and active subjectivities, both which call into question the violence and negation of the lives in marginalized communities. The analysis will be approached throughout the rupture between words and the revelation of the uncanny – terms exposed in Fantasy, the literature of subversion by Rosemary Jackson –, and they will be interceded by Judith Butler proposals in her work: Precarious life, so as to demonstrate the possibilities of linguistic and social subversion granted by fantastic literature.