Subjectivity and animality in César Vallejo's Fabla salvaje

Valenzuela Garcés J. · Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana (2022) · DOI: 10.5209/alhi.85131

Resumen

The objective of this article is to determine the characteristics of the subjectivity of the protagonist Balta Espinar in the short novel Fabla Salvaje by César Vallejo published in 1923. Articulated around two axes, fear and irrationality, we consider that knowing the type of subjectivity of Balta Espinar, will allow us to discover how he questions the project of modernity that postulates a monolithic and rationalist identity. Our theoretical framework works with Michel Foucault's proposals on the subject and subjectivity as historical constructions generated, on the one hand, through social practices linked to power and, on the other, through epistemic practices related to the way we produce and relate to the world. to know. Likewise, Foucault postulates that the subject builds its various subjectivities in its links with the other, as well as when it responds to the demands of its desire for affirmation or its own needs for self-recognition.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos