What resists in the body that remains: Life and power in impuesto a la carne, by Diamela Eltit
Abstract
The novel Impuesto a la carne, written by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, textualizes the commodification of the bodies and lives of human beings in the current state of capitalism. In this novel, published in the year that celebrated the bicentenary of Chilean independence, two women, mother and daughter, confined to a hospital for 200 years, resist the appropriation of their bodies — their blood, their organs, their members — by the “general doctors", the leaders of this space of normalization and confinement that is also the nation. The present article analyzes how the novel stages forms of resistance and potency of life in a world of extreme merchandizing and control over human bodies.
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