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BARRIENTOS, Maximiliano. The nocturnal body (The imaginaries of corporality and politics in literature). Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2024, n.37, pp.105-113. ISSN 2306-8671.  https://doi.org/10.56992/a.v1i37.492.

This article analyzes the intersection between literature and politics by questioning what are the conditions of possibility for a political literature to originate. Starting from that question, it reflects on political literature, not in its complaint dimension but from what Jacques Rancière raises about political dissent and a literature that challenges what a community can imagine as possible. It is proposed that the political in literature operates as a dissent that manifests itself in the questioning of what a generation allows itself to imagine as true. Following this theoretical framework, the essay tries to think about how genre literature (horror, fantastic and especially weird fiction) become political literatures par excellence insofar as they are always questioning the imaginary from which subjectivity mediates with reality.

Palavras-chave : literature; politics; contemporary literature; fiction.

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