Flaws in the Living Machine. Architecture, Botany and Affect in Las horas claras by Jacqueline Goldberg
The purpose of this article is to read Las horas claras (2013) by Jacqueline Goldberg as a means to reveal the ways that this novel, through its “trans-gender” condition, intervenes in official history and proposes a poetics of non-belonging based on the gesture of cracking the topos of the house as...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Recursos: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1581 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/1581 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Jacqueline Golberg novela venezolana máquina de habitar arquitectura modernidad mujer espacio propio casa familiar afectos devenir vegetal literatura mocología planta Venezuelan novel living machine architecture modernity women family household affects becoming-vegetables |
| Resumo: | The purpose of this article is to read Las horas claras (2013) by Jacqueline Goldberg as a means to reveal the ways that this novel, through its “trans-gender” condition, intervenes in official history and proposes a poetics of non-belonging based on the gesture of cracking the topos of the house as a common space of human dwelling. This is also perceived as a form of intervening in literary dwelling by decentering its limits towards other experiences and knowledges such as architecture, botany and culinary. For Goldberg, narrating the life of a French woman in the first half of the 20th century, entails thinking of existence as an inedible fungus, as a green grapefruit that intoxicates and provokes death. In this way, her writing breaks down the hierarchy between human and non-human life to show how the living also expresses negative affects that operate to destroy |
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