The silences of the archive. Notes about Desierto sonoro (2019) by Valeria Luiselli

Authors

  • Julieta Marina Vanney Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/b.v12i23.567

Keywords:

Migration, Archive, Absence, Game

Abstract

Valeria Luiselli's latest novel, Desierto sonoro (2019), focuses on the migratory conflict that took place in the US in 2014 and is built on paradox: giving testimony about what is no longer there, and which is irretrievable. With this objective, Luiselli carries out an inquiry in the operational field of the archive to find a formal structure that allows her to make the document speak from those spaces that express silences within it. In this direction, the narrator's children and their games occupy a central place in the novel, since they generate a space for processing the impossibility of capturing what is no longer there. The novel finds in the children and their games a way to resolve the tension raised around the archive, their absences and the migrant children who disappeared in transit.

Author Biography

Julieta Marina Vanney, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Licenciada en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y estudiante del Doctorado en Literatura. Es integrante del PICT “Archivos y diagramas de lo viviente” dirigido por Daniel Link, con sede en el PELCC-UNTREF. Es becaria doctoral de CONICET, con sede de trabajo en el Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana. Se ha desempeñado como docente de enseñanza media. Fue adscripta de la cátedra de Literatura Inglesa de la UBA con un proyecto sobre la narrativa de Jeannete Winterson. Actualmente se encuentra trabajando en su tesis, que tiene por objeto el estudio de la relación entre la experiencia migrante y la literatura latinoamericana (Paloma Vidal, Lina Meruane y Valeria Luiselli).

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Published

2022-09-30

How to Cite

Vanney, J. M. (2022). The silences of the archive. Notes about Desierto sonoro (2019) by Valeria Luiselli. Badebec, 12(23), 109–134. https://doi.org/10.35305/b.v12i23.567

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 23 (2022): Septiembre (2022)

Section

Artículos