Delusion of decomposition in Samanta Schweblin, Daniela Tarazona and Mariana Enríquez

Abstract

This essay explore the decomposing corporalities in some fictions that tries forms of transmutation and transit of the bodies (reincarnation, mutation, gliding from and towards the animality). In open opposition to the neoliberal dogma that there are no alternatives, these fictions features delusional forms of life, in terms of the immortality of the specy, of transhuman evolution and / or by the action of dissident unions. Typically, the exploration of maternities or alternative pregnancies situates the fictions in front of a responsibility related to "those who will come" that transcends widely the borders of the attention restricted to the family frame and postulates in its place rights-care and ethics in a collective level.