Viaje, cuerpo y muerte: la construcción de la identidad colectiva e individual colectiva e individual en dos novelas de Severo Sarduy

Abstract

In De donde son los cantantes (1967) and Cobra (1972), the Cuban writer Severo Sarduy represents the processes of “desterritorialization” and “reterritorialization” in the national and individual identity through three dimensions: the journey, the death, and the body. In this article I propose that these two novels should be interpreted as the becoming of the “literary machine” of Sarduy, based on the “disidentification” of the subject and the quest of “lines of flight” in hegemonic systems. Sarduy questions the notion of “historic transcendence” in De donde… and expands towards the “immanence” in Cobra, developing new methods of resistance and literary creation.