Migración y oralidad: la vida animal en la novela El niño pez de Lucía Puenzo

Abstract

This article examines the deviations and derivations of a new type of realism in The Fish Child (2004), the first novel of Argentine writer and filmmaker Lucia Puenzo. Through an innovative narrative based on the incorporation of the oral components of indigenous languages and the popular stereotypes taken from mass-media, the novel proposes a new subjectivity focused on the recovery/ re-adoption of an animalistic nature as a way of life that resists domination and as a form of excess capable of transcending the limits of gender, morals and cultural territories marked by politics.