Anthropocenic Futures and Precarious Bodies. A Reading of "Mugre rosa" (2020) by Fernanda Trías

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2024.15.2.5192

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Precarious bodies, Anthropocene, Illness, Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa

Abstract

Mugre rosa (2020), by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías, depicts a near-future Montevideo, where the population is confronted with climatic disaster and the propagation of a devastating disease. In this article, I explore the representation of bodily precarity in the context of environmental catastrophe, arguing that this vulnerability constitutes a point of resistance from which to rethink human identity. On the one hand, exposure to an anthropogenic environment is interpreted as instrumental to late capitalist biopolitics. This is revealed through the cartographies of precarity emerging from the novel, which reflect not only the chasm between Global North and Global South but also local inequalities. On the other hand, this corporeal exposure constitutes a challenge to traditional representations of the human. Through the analysis of the depiction of the illness, I discuss how this deconstruction of the body favours the emergence of a new, interconnected identity. Ultimately, I suggest that a destabilising age such as the Anthropocene constitutes not only a profound moment of crisis but also a privileged space to rethink human subjectivity and its modes of representation.

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Manuela Crivelli, University of Oxford

Manuela Crivelli is a MPhil candidate in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. She obtained a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of Zürich. Her current research interests include contemporary literature from the Cono Sur, the Anthropocene, and the construction of posthuman identities through the representation of ill or monstrous bodies.

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2024-10-30