A Closer World: Altered Maps in the Work of Osvaldo Baigorria

Abstract

This joint analysis of two books by Osvaldo Baigorria –the novel Correrías de un infiel and the short story collection Indiada– explores how concepts like subject, distance and movement unfold along both texts. Read together, the novel and the short stories tend towards the dislocation of known geographies while offering ways of re-mapping the world, therefore, of inhabiting it. The conceptual framework is based on current readings of Poststructuralism, Biopolitics and New Materialism.