Madres y niños en redes biopolíticas

• In Event: On the Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature: Hacia un canon continental

Abstract

Irreconcilable meanings circulate and converge in the imaginary and symbolic, although nevertheless material paths connecting labor and birth, or motherhood and abortion: beginning and end, start and finish, union and separation, life and death. Mothers and children, bodies and words, link these notions that are irrevocably related. Anchored in specific times and spaces, the social and literary narratives that feature them as protagonists weave the possible relationships that each historical age establishes between biopolitics, motherhood, and filiation. The idea of unviable children and mothers can be traced in the literary works of Argentine, Chilean, and Uruguayan women writers, accounting for the meanings and places that culture and politics assign for them.

Author

• Nora Domínguez, Universidad de Buenos Aires