Apuntes para una crítica weird desde los bordes del sistema: América Latina como frontera del mundo global en tres cuentos de Solange Rodríguez Pappe

Abstract

As Giovanna Rivero points out (“Raro, hermoso, lúdico. Eso es un mundo”), Solange Rodríguez Pappe’s latest collection of short stories, De un mundo raro, functions as a “Latin American western” where “the subject” “blurs on the horizon”, productively ‘rarefies’, giving way to the “liberating epiphany of another life that dispenses with the norms of civilisation”, i.e. favouring the projection of a chaotic “New World” (originating from the end of the world as we know it): a mutant, heterogeneous, hybrid world of fierce inter-speciesist alliances, whose evident posthumanist affiliation emerges as the ideal continuation of the Latin American cultural discourse of emancipation from absolute categories and ideals of purity. This article sets out to explore, from the perspective of weird fiction, the possibilities of the current manifestation of localism, accounting for the literary return of the poetic and politically resistant image of Latin America as a significant margin of the world-system and an emblematic place of identity experimentation.