The Overflows of the Humankind: the Configuration of the Body in the Literary Works of Maria Luisa Bombal and Diamela Eltit

The article compares the construction of the female body representations in two novels of Chilean writers who go through the 20th century: La amortajada (1938) by Maria Luisa Bombal, and Lumpérica (1983) by Diamel Eltit. The exposition is organized around a question due to the manner in which both authors explore the limits of the human and the non-human, and the way those limits are inscribed and debated with the orders around the symbolic production of a normative corporeality. The hypothesis of this work holds that the authors present a critical stance towards the development of the nation, the community, the humankind and the subjectivity, which are inscribed on the materiality of the female body.