Vaca sagrada of Diamela Eltit as a Counter-hegemonic Project

Abstract

This article demonstrates that the novel Vaca sagrada by Diamela Eltit functions as a fictional counter-hegemonic project through two strategies that can be found in the novel: complaint and resistance. The first one is analyzed taking the concept “biopolitics”, made by Michel Foucault, to highlight the body control and surveillance in the social articulation of the characters. The second strategy is based on the concept by Deleuze and Guattari “body without organs”, because it can demonstrate that in the novel the construction of the bodies are disassembled through three discursive axes that question the hegemonic body: material body, textual body and political body, to which corresponds the three stratums organism, significance and subjectivity.