Tatiana
CALDERON LE JOLIFF

SCIENTIFIC PROJECT

"Corpographies in Migration Literature: The Americas (2000-2020)"

The main objective of this research is to explain, from a comparative perspective, the different corpographies manifested in contemporary migration literature (2000-2020), produced in the Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanophone spaces of the Americas (Quebec, United States, Mexico, Chile). This comparison is fundamental to foster a continental dialogue on analogous phenomena that deploy at the same time a wide range of representations and corporeal experiences. In the context of a globalization that stimulates migratory flows while denaturalizing migrant bodies, the corpographies present in the literary text tend to represent a body that is desubjectivized, uninhabited, stripped of meaning and language. The migrant body moves in a border space characterized by its heterotopic, panoptic, carceral and infernal aspect, where its emotions are denied, but survive in the attempt to connect to the affection of other bodies. The violence applied to the migrant body finds a correlate in the rescue of the testimony operated by the literary text.

BIOGRAPHY 

Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff is a professor and researcher at Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile), specializing in border and migratory literary studies, comparative poetics (French, Spanish, English).