Open AccessEnfermedad y monstruosidad en Sangre en el ojo de Lina Meruane / Disease and monstrosity in Sangre en el ojo [Seeing Red] by Lina Meruane
Author(s) -
Juan Manuel Mancilla Troncoso
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
kamchatka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 2340-1869
DOI - 10.7203/kam.10.10792
Subject(s) - humanities , art , philosophy
The relationship between individual and disease is examined in Lina Meruane?s novel Sangre en el ojo [Seeing Red]. Notions of monstrosity proposed by Foucault and Negri are used to approach the protagonist?s disease as an event which causes crisis in the paradigm of order, thus subverting social regulatory systems. The pathological process is approached as an element breaching and displaying the sinister aspect of ?reality?. Keywords: Disease, monstrosity, animality, the sinister, abjection