American Canibalia and eurocentrism: the relative “imagination of the centre” in Juan José Saer’s "El entenado"

Abstract

This work intends to propose a reading of the literary treatment of the cannibal America stereotype in Juan José Saer’s El entenado (1983), seen as an overturn and a questioning of the point of view that thinks itself as unique; an inversion that forces to the most radical acceptation of the relativity of the idea of centrality. I propose to imagine the text as an intersection of gazes trough witch the possibility of a single point of view over America and Conquest history is questioned, as long as the validity of the monological discourse on it. This interpretation arises both from critical tools proposed by the theorists of the modernidad/ colonialidad network and the analysis provided by the work of Carlos A. Jáuregui on the uncountable modulations of cannibalism in the Latin American context.