Familiy Medicine. Biomedical Knowledge and Family in Two Contemporary Fictions

Authors

  • Francisco Gelman Constantin Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana (Universidad de Buenos Aires) - Conicet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2022386840

Keywords:

contemporary literature and theater, biomedicine, family, care, interference

Abstract

This article explores how the relationship between biomedical knowledge and the family is reshaped by two works of contemporary theater and literature: US-American Deborah Stein and Suli Holum’s Chimera and Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s El desbarrancadero. By setting the analysis of the verbal, visual and actoral procedures of the play and the novel inside a ser of hemispheric historical coordenates, the study of the play and the novel allows for an understanding of the cultural frames conditioning decisions about the medical treatment of bodies and the different forms of care that develop around them, together with what the work with words and images can effect in them. Supported by that research, I argue that the literary and artistic capacity to “interfere” with kinship structures and authoritative discourses allows for the invention of new forms of company for the suffering.

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Published

2022-07-07

How to Cite

Gelman Constantin, F. (2022). Familiy Medicine. Biomedical Knowledge and Family in Two Contemporary Fictions. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (38), 273–289. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2022386840

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Papers
Received 2022-03-17
Accepted 2022-04-30
Published 2022-07-07