Huelga de hambre. Escritura y representación. Una lectura de Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro de Carmen Berenguer

Authors

  • José Salomón Gebhard Universidad Andrés Bello

Abstract

This article presents a research about the concept of migrancy proposed by Antonio Cornejo Polar, and its application as critical approach to the representation of the hunger strike in the poetic text of Carmen Berenguer; Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro. The possible relations of this concept are described with the definitions of subaltern subject. Understanding the last one as a form of hybrid and plural conceptualization. The analysis of the poetic text of Berenguer considers the hunger strike as an alternative of a subaltern representation, sustained in the use of the body as writing material, also raising the rejection to literary and hegemonic codes of symbolic representation. In this sense, the hunger strike is an expression that calls for its own interpretation criteria and it supposes a migrancy that moves from the speech, literate and literal, to a stamp characterized by the representation of the body.

Keywords:

representation, hunger strike, migrancy, subaltern subject, body