Abstract

MIRANDA HERRERA, Paula. Biopolitics and Inscriptions: Raúl Zurita’s Poetry as a communitas of Pain. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.32, pp.97-113.  Epub Apr 30, 2024. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202415.32.06.

This article analyzes part of the poetic work of Raúl Zurita, expressed both in some of his poetry books and in his “inscriptions” or material inscriptions and in his corporal selfmutilations to determine the functions that his art fulfills in the face of neoliberal biopolitical practices (Foucault, Agamben, Calveiro) and as a bet for a communitas of pain (Diéguez). It explains the meaning and function of books such as Purgatorio (1982), Canto a su amor desaparecido (1985) and zurita/in memoriam (2007), or interventions such as her verse “ni pena ni miedo” in the Atacama Desert, her presence in memorials or her intervention “El mar del dolor”; all as differentiated forms of resistance from art, against strategies of power that tried to “let die” part of the society in the context of the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) and also in other contexts of human rights violations.

Keywords : Raúl Zurita; literary studies; poetry; land art; inscriptions; biopolitics; 1975-2018; Chile.

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