TY  - JOUR 
TI  - El viaje del héroe al espacio monstruoso: metáforas de un saber biopolítico hecho novela
JO  - CS;No. 9 - Enero/Junio 2012
PB  - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
PY  - 2012
issn 20110324
AB  - Drawing on the case of the Costa Rican communist writer Carlos Luis Fallas, this article
explores political metaphors of the heroic, of the monstrous, and of the animal from two
perspectives. The first, a contextual one, wherein areas of knowledge; such as that of political
zoology and its criticism leveled at late 19th century liberalism together with that of
biopolitics and its gaze at the monstrous body, become the signifiers of these metaphors;
and the second, a subjective one, in which the heroic constitutes both the narrative and
experiential forms of a militant and literary experience. The intertwining of metaphor and
biography will be examined within the dual contexts of the Caribbean during the era of
intensive banana farming and Fallas’ social novel Mamita Yunai.
KW  - FACULTAD DE DERECHO Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
KW  - HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
KW  - METÁFORA
KW  - BIOPOLÍTICA
KW  - PRODUCCIÓN INTELECTUAL REGISTRADA - UNIVERSIDAD ICESI
KW  - REVISTA EN CIENCIAS SOCIALES – CS
UR  - http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/revista_cs/article/view/1202
ER  -