Hacia una configuración de lugares sin territorios en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.15.2015.58.7-19Keywords:
Junot Díaz, Lugar, Desarraigo, Antropofagia, Literatura dominico-americana, Siglo XXI, Place, Rotlessness, Anthropophagy, Dominican-American Literature, 21st CenturyAbstract
A partir de la distinción de Glissant entre territorio y lugar se propone leer la novela de Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) como una ficcionalización de la idea de lugar. Los espacios resultan ámbitos donde se descodifican los referentes claves que “fijan” los territorios. Dichos ámbitos implicarán un proceso de desenraizamiento de las categorías de identidad. Sin embargo, ello no entraña sus anulaciones absolutas. Los lugares responden a una práctica antropofágica en la que los diversos territorios (geográficos, raciales, económicos, lingüísticos, sexuales, temporales y estéticos) persisten, pero dislocados bajo una permanente tensión irresuelta. Tal fenómeno apuntaría a una nueva forma de antropofagia cultural acéntrica desde el loser. El loser sería aquel personaje expulsado de la lógica de la ganancia capitalista cuyos reciclajes simbólico-políticos no pretenden erigir territorios o reordenamientos binarios, sino hacerlos partícipes de los devenires de sus propios desarraigos.
Abstract
Based on the distinction proposed by Glissant between territory and place, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao proposes a fictionalization of the idea of place. The places become are as where the references that “set” territories are decoded and the process of rootlessness of identity categories occurs. However, the categories are not completely annulled. Places respond to an anthropophagic practice in which different territories (geographical, racial, economic, linguistic, sexual, temporal and aesthetic) persist, but recycled under a permanent unresolved tension. Such a phenomenon articulates a new form of cultural centerless anthropophagy in the loser character. Oscar is a loser that has been expelled from the logic of the capitalist profit. His symbolic-political recycling does not pretend to erect new territories or binaries rearrangements, but to transform through rootlessness his old territories into the new places.
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