BLACK UTOPIA AND BODY AGENCY IN RIVERS SOLOMON’S AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS
Palabras clave:
utopía negra, afrofuturismo, posthumanismo crítico, antihumanismo negro, agencia, parentesco no heteronormativo, autistexto, biopolíticaResumen
Tras definir la primera novela de Rivers Solomon An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) como una utopía negra siguiendo el estudio que Zamalin hace de este género, el presente artículo examina la obra desde los prismas del antihumanismo negro, el posthumanismo crítico y el parentesco no heteronormativo. Argumento que la novela de Solomon sobrepasa las nociones de afrofuturismo y del posthumanismo crítico blanco a través de su representación de la contestación de género e identidad sexual de los personajes principales y de las relaciones de parentesco radicales que desarrollan entre ellos, así como con lo no humano en el caso de la protagonista. Es más, a través de la agencia que los personajes centrales ejercen sobre sus cuerpos, junto con las posibilidades que proyecta el final abierto de la novela, el ‘autistexto’ de Solomon subvierte la construcción occidental Ilustrada y colonial del sujeto blanco civilizado en contraposición a la animalización de los cuerpos negros, así como la lógica universalista y excepcionalista de la brutalidad infligida a los afroamericanos desde la época de la esclavitud.
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