Headless Virgin. Life, Languaje, Territory

Abstract

Life is the unstable matter of a series of Latin American novels of the twenty-first century. In the midst of the crisis, these novels created new space-time devices to disassemble the fundamental biopolitical operations, as well as build others assembles of bodies and senses under the name of the common. Slum Virgin (La Virgen Cabeza, 2009) is an «adventure of the matter» strongly anchored in the materiality of the bodies, through which her author, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, explores the rubble left by economic violence and political abandonment, in order to show the power of social change that emerges from the territory. Ten years after its publication, Slum Virgin continues to function as a literary and political clock that advances.