El cuerpo otro en Fragmentos de la Tierra Rota de Elaine Vilar Madruga

Abstract

In the recent panorama of Latin American science fiction written by women, Elaine Vilar Mandruga (Havana, 1989) stands out, both for the recognition of her literature and for the number of books she has published in various registers. For the purposes of this article, I am interested in addressing the stories grouped in Fragmentos de la Tierra Rota (2017), which narrate a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which the body (wounded, deformed, transformed) becomes the axis of reflection. From the descriptions of the body (female, other) and the way in which it is narrated in a liminal context, we seek to question certain conceptions about the human body and its characteristics, its limits, and its capacity for transformation from a reading that takes up elements of gender theory (the body, the cyborg) and social studies on science fiction (subjectivities, identity).