Interocepción insular : lo patológico en la imaginación literaria del laboratorio Caribe / Ana Ugarte.
| Author/creator | Ugarte, Ana author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Romance Studies, 2025. |
| Distribution | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; number 333 North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 333. ^A58403 |
| Abstract | "Anchored by interoception as a theoretical mode of inquiry, this monograph makes visible and reconceptualizes how the Caribbean has served as a laboratory for scientific, political, social, and economic testing. Interocepción insular argues that the Spanish-speaking Caribbean's so-called "insular condition" has been historically pathologized as a cultural, geopolitical, and psychological problem --ultimately harboring and translating an experimental condition. How, Ana Ugarte asks, does the test-subject apprehend their body as it lurks in the laboratory's vaults? Humans and non-humans who are destined for various forms of testing -pharmacological, eugenic, neoliberal, communist, and otherwise- hyper-monitor the state of a corporeality that is simultaneously their own and alien, cause and effect of the Caribbean laboratory, pathogenic and pathologized. Through interoception --the perception of internal bodily signals-- test-subjects study themselves to also dissect the methods that acutely examine them. Interocepción insular spans from the mid-twentieth century to contemporary times. It raises questions about Caribbean biopolitics, somatic knowledge, and the power over narration: how disease and disability are imagined, recounted, and experienced inside and outside medical and colonial diagnoses. The book is powered by literary representations of illness, and bodily and cognitive differences from a range of voices --including Maielis González Fernández, Virgilio Piñera, José Lezama Lima, Rafael Acevedo, Jorge Enrique Lage, Pedro Cabiya, and Marta Aponte Alsina-- who challenge and deconstruct pathologization processes. Ugarte's trenchant analysis provides creative and critical openings to begin wrestling with and articulating the longue durée of a laboratorial regime that has escaped a name"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University, 2018. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277). |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ugarte, Ana (Ana Irene). Interocepción insular Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Romance Studies, 2024 9781469688602 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2024047258 |
| ISBN | 9781469688596 paperback |
| ISBN | 146968859X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PQ7382 .U43 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |