Wild tales: animality and migration in Nombres y animales, by Rita Indiana

Abstract

With a starting point in the novel Nombres y animales (2014), by Dominican writer Rita Indiana, this articles analyzes the figure of the animal as a literary trope in re/presentation processes of subjects whose bodies, language and identity structures reflect tensions and fractures in spaces of power and exploitation. Thus, herein there will be a consideration of the ways in which the animal destabilizes discourses centered on the concept of man –as a normative hierarchical parameter– in order to show, afterwards, the interstices opened by the animal (human and non-human) to subvert homogeneous borders which intend to generate permanent immunity against any form of foreign invasion.