Archive without a metaphor. Autobiographical and publishing experiment in recent argentine literature: Cuqui, Kiki and Charlotte Von Mess

Abstract

This article investigates how certain experiments in autobiographical writing articulate debates about ways to “witness without metaphor”, construction of “archives of reality” that allow questioning renewed concepts of experience, while we want to highlight how these writings are permeated by discussions regarding forms of organization, grouping, enrollment and disenrollment, regarding alternative publishing projects, and how to discuss their creative processes. Here, we first analyze the autobiographical experiment developed by Cuqui in KIKI 2 (2012), as part of an aesthetic, political, and ethical project criticism that articulates the challenge of the name and the relaboration of the insult for the construction and organization of the file and management of the firm. Second, Second, we attend to the relationship between autobiography and editing in KIKI 2, as we consider that the aesthetic-political programs of certain alternative editorials, construct and challenge images in the management of author portraits and performative spaces that explore and complexify the autobiographical procedures.