Abstract

ALZATE, Alejandro. Between Identity and Commitment: A Biopolitical Approach to Manuel Zapata Olivella’s He visto la noche. CS [online]. 2020, n.30, pp.123-140. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i30.3189.

As aesthetic expression, literature does not escape the influence of the power considered as a form of social control. In that sense, it is worth asking how the works written by authors not consecrated by the intellectual and economic elites, assume and explain the onslaught of the hegemonies that exclude, homogenize, and tend to consolidate monological discourses. Theoretically, it will be biopolitics, a concept proposed by Michel Foucault in 1978, what best explains the relationship between subject, society, and power that this text by Manuel Zapata Olivella proposes based on a trip made to the United States.

Keywords : Biopolitics; Negritudes; Manuel Zapata Olivella; Colombian Novel; Twentieth Century Literature.

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