Posthuman communities: two examples of non-speciesist links between human animals and dogs in latin-american literature and film

With regard to the film La mujer de los perros (2015) by Laura Citarella and Verónica Linás and the novel Perros héroes. Tratado sobre el futuro de América Latina visto a través de un hombre inmóvil y sus treinta Pastor Belga Malinois (2005) by Mario Bellatin, I will offer a possible contribution to “animal studies” in general and to “dogological studies” in particular, from a posthuman materialist perspective, seeking a conception of animal materiality beyond any human metaphor. Thus, to begin with, I will contextualize posthuman materialism in the framework (parergon) of Animal Studies to be able to account for certain elements in the film that venture a guess into non-hierarchical and physical modes of inter-species closeness, as well as elements in the novel that allow us to think beyond a symbolist consideration: a canine symptomatology.

Keywords
community; animality; humanity; posthumanism