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Bodies in Flight: The Becoming Minor in Language in Lumpérica and Los Vigilantes by Diamela Eltit

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  • Paola Susana Solorza Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile
No. 20 (2015): Diciembre

Abstract

This work focalizes in a deleuzian and guattarian perspective of language in two novels of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, Lumpérica (1983) and Los vigilantes (1994), considering the concepts of “agramaticality”, “deterritorialization”, “lines of flight” and “becoming minor” in the representation of marginal corporalities and subjectivities. Most of Eltit´s characters are crossed by an oppressive power that tries to make them fit in a system –understood as an ensemble of forces in which many social variables crosslink and converge in the persistence of a dictatorial regime- and however, these corporalities and subjectivities ended up subverting its logic. This is possible through a particular use of language which breaks the signifying chain integrating atypical expressions such as babbles, screeches, rictus. Ultimately, it refers to a minor language which generates a “clandestine becoming” in the limits of the unnamable.

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Susana Solorza, P. (2016). Bodies in Flight: The Becoming Minor in Language in Lumpérica and Los Vigilantes by Diamela Eltit. Nomadías, (20). Retrieved from https://revistaidiem.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/39135
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