The dehumanization as countereconomic strategy in Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero

Authors

  • Selma Rodal Linares Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i33.738

Abstract

In this article, I propose that Cockfight by Ampuero exhibits the naturalization of the inhuman, proper of gore capitalism, in socio-affective relationships of intimate life. Departing from Sayak Valencia, I explain how the stories show a symbolic economy that merchandizes feminine bodies and animals, turning the violence against them into a product of consumption. Then, I show that the feminine characters become-animal-waste as a strategy to escape this codification. I believe that these becomings redistribute the property of knowledge from humans to animals and nature and subvert the semantic and affective economy of consumption as a common horizon. These dehumanization forms allow the feminine bodies a partial and ephemeral reappropriation of the body that has been robbed.

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Published

2024-01-01

How to Cite

Rodal Linares, S. (2024). The dehumanization as countereconomic strategy in Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero. Valenciana, 17(33), 33–57. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i33.738

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No. 33 (2024): Valenciana, enero-junio 2024

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