Prehuman monsters and super ciborgs in Lina Meruane´s narrative
Abstract
Chilean writer Lina Meruane’s literary production penetrates the valley of monsters and searches every corner from where they could stalk. Aided by her characters, girls and adolescents, disobedient and in search of an identity which struggles not to be categorized, this essay analyses the representations of monsters in the work of the young writer. Fictional martyrs of a real world, the protagonists of Las infantas (1998) y Fruta podrida (2007) clamor for an inversion of the norms in a world which is losing its humanity in favor of technology. Becoming a cyborg, a creature who would use technology to eradicate inequality, as proposed by Donna Haraway in Simians, cyborgs and women (1991), does not seem possible in a fiction where the dictatorial reality still wreaks havoc with their memory. Characters succumb before their destiny. But their message still exists and resists, and Meruane’s monstrous work still warns, recalling the monster’s original identity and its psychic abilities.
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