The tensions between the global and the local in Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica
Lumpérica, by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit (1983), reveals numerous tensions between the local and the global at least in two dimensions. In the first place, in regards to the thematic and political aspect, the problem of the (national) identity emerges, which involves the global (economic-capit...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Caracol (São Paulo. Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/143080 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/143080 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Global Local National identity Poststructuralism Identidad nacional Post-estructuralismo |
| Sumario: | Lumpérica, by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit (1983), reveals numerous tensions between the local and the global at least in two dimensions. In the first place, in regards to the thematic and political aspect, the problem of the (national) identity emerges, which involves the global (economic-capitalist) and local contexts (the Pinochet dictatorship). These delineate certain forms of socio-economic existence of (pos)modernity that would have an impact on the forms of construction of a local “Chilean” identity, paradoxically based on the prioritization of those non-canonical identities in relation to nationality: the excluded and the marginalized. And secondly, the global-local dyad also takes place on the theoretical and aesthetic level, from the implicit choices and metapoetic affirmations of explicit order that ascribe to aesthetic and theoretical poststructuralist currents that allow not only a concealment or dissimulation of the contextual aspect, but also an aesthetic appropriation, from that Latin American “inter-place” (Santiago, 1978). |
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