Mostrusity, animality, humanity:

towards a post-human condition in patas de perro de Carlos Droguett

Authors

  • Francisco Serratos

Keywords:

monstruosity, animality, humanism, posthumanism

Abstract

The novel Patas de perro by the Chilean author Carlos Droguett calls into question the humanism/antihumanism binomial with the main character named Bobi, a boy who was born with a body that is half a dog half human. In his corporeality, the normative discourses represented by the pedagogy, medicine and juridical institutions define and separate the human from the animal, the normal from the abnormal. Throughout the novel, these discourses are embodied by different characters who try to explain and contain Bobi, but Bobi, unable to identify with the human, flees towards a posthuman condition that allows him to feel accepted in a community. Revisiting concepts about monstrosity, animality and humanity, this text, through Foucault and Braidotti, explains how those discourses in the novel are manifested and how normative institutions try to impose a corrective idea of the borders between monstrous, animal and human.

Author Biography

  • Francisco Serratos

    Doctor en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Arizona State University. Washington State University, School of Languages, Culture, and Race

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Published

2019-12-01

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How to Cite

Mostrusity, animality, humanity: : towards a post-human condition in patas de perro de Carlos Droguett. (2019). Revista Latinoamericana De Estudios Críticos Animales, 6(2). https://revistaleca.org/index.php/leca/article/view/252