Scriptural responsability: "Los niños perdidos" by Valeria Luiselli as a counter-archive
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https://doi.org/10.37536/preh.2021.9.2.837Keywords:
Valeria Luiselli, Los niños perdidos, Authorship, Responsability, Counter-ArchiveAbstract
This article proposes a reading of Los niños perdidos (2016) [Tell me how it ends (2016 y 2017)], by Valeria Luiselli, in relation to the ethical and political commitment of writing. It analyzes the construction of this peculiar mestizo genre text, articulated in-between autobiography, essay and chronicle, as a parasitic counter-archive, supported by a place of affected and affective enunciation –the body of the author– which, as a relational interface, crosses and vertebrates it. The article is structured as a transit or passage itself, until it leads to the scriptural responsibility and the authorial position (which implies putting the body of Luiselli): both questions are thematized in this singular literary artifact, which in some way meant the prelude to the acclaimed later novel, Sound Desert (2019) [Lost Child Archive (2019)].
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