On remedies and poisons or the subversion of enslaved women in Jonatás y Manuela by Luz Argentina Chiriboga

Literary tradition accounts for the multiple metaphorical uses articulated in relation to remedies and poisons. In this direction, the author explores the poetics of female slavery present in the novel Jonatás y Manuela (1994) by Afro-Emeraldan Luz A. Chiriboga. The novel, far from the abolitionist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Murga T., Mónica
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1093
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/1093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ecuador
novela
literatura afro
biopolítica
control
cuerpo
desterritorialización
diáspora
memoria
poder
sanación
novel
Afro-literature
biopolitics
body
deterritorialization
diaspora
memory
power
healing
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Sumario:Literary tradition accounts for the multiple metaphorical uses articulated in relation to remedies and poisons. In this direction, the author explores the poetics of female slavery present in the novel Jonatás y Manuela (1994) by Afro-Emeraldan Luz A. Chiriboga. The novel, far from the abolitionist literature of the nineteenth century, configures a writing that delves into the psyche-body of the enslaved woman. Thus, from biopolitics and deterritorialization it analyzes the representation of the enslaved body, its misfortune and its “healing” through two figures: the “healer” and the “sorceress”, who contravene and subvert hegemonic control revealing the racial, cultural and sociohistorical tensions, which are the product of diaspora and diversity.