La sinrazón de mi vida: Ficción autobiográfica, relato antiestatal y peronismo en La madriguera de Tununa Mercado

Abstract

This research finds its frame in the more encompassing plan of my PhD in Letters. After giving a brief account of Tununa Mercadoïs work, we will proceed to put forward our reading hypothesis: after the publication of her work La Madriguera (1996), an autobiographical fiction of childhood (a category which involves variables put into question by theoretical approaches from the linguistic turn onwards), the author creates a literary replica (Avellaneda, 1983) to the `menemistaï government and its ideology, by means of a deviant substitute operation, in which Juan Domingo Perónïs government is alluded to. Narrating and making reference to that government, Mercado destabilizes the state fictions (specially the compulsory text La razón de mi vida, 1951) that worked towards its legitimation and the production of political and social cohesion, while it brings about a cultural response of resistance to the ideology and social practices of the `menemismoï. It simultaneously constructs a female autobiographical subject, which involves highly innovative operations so as to bend a gender belonging in the strong patriarchal tradition of the West (Klein, 2001). Like most fiction of origin, La madriguera cannot dodge some kind of mythical narratives, both of a literate nature and founders of identity, and questions the categories of perception, giving rise to a new sensibility and making problematic the domain of the real. This is her way of rendering the conflicts of social anchorage, definitely not one resting on the pacifying but deformed doxa characteristic of state narratives.