LA REESCRITURA DE LA CONQUISTA DEL DESIERTOEN EL PAÍS DEL DIABLO DE PERLA SUEZ

Abstract

El país del diablo (2015) of Perla Suez narrates the subjugation and genocide of native people who inhabited the Patagonia and reviews different symbolic formsthrough which science and art capitalized and legitimized imperial action (such as photography, «pieces» of museum, but also formal procedures of the realist literature). This communication analyzes the ways in which the novel of Suez organizes the narrative material in a clear tension between the recovery of certain procedures of the realist novel and its deliberate disruption. The work of rewriting —revealed in the recovery of typical topics, motives and procedures of the accounts of the Campaign to the Desertof 1879— is combined with other narrative strategies designed to shift the interpretation of the facts from «History»to personal history and rescue from oblivion the elusive reality of an experience.