Critical discourse and narrative strategies in Vaca sagrada by Diamela Eltit: Subversion and gender
Abstract
The literary expression of the Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, in Vaca Sagrada (2002) is structured around two signs: the female blood and the metaphorical process of the animal cow as a field of enjoyment and fulfillment. Within the venue of a city, wandering bodies go in the search of a direction and of survival. The centre of the narrative occupies the pain for existing of each individual in the remains of the dictatorship and in the demands of neoliberalism. Outside of the common place, the book subverts official signs that have a relationship with the body and poetically transforms the blood and the animal existence into sacred phenomena. Featuring this subversion as a political and literary act, one hopes to analyze the regulatory and oppressive construction of the body, as well as to reflect on the signs of prohibition, which are socially constructed. In order to do so, the author in question will be studied, comparing her with herself, and bringing her closer to the theories of Deleuze and Guattari (2003), Foucault (2007), among other scholars.
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