Somatografía del futuro: o de la maternidad monstruosa y del parentesco extraño en «Xenogénesis»
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En La estirpe de Lilith (trad. en castellano del original Xenogenesis) Octavia Butler cuenta la historia de Lilith Iyapo, una mujer afrodescendiente que ha sobrevivido a una guerra nuclear —que devastó por completo la Tierra y diezmó a sus habitantes— gracias a la intervención de una especie extraterrestre, los Oankali. Estas criaturas se dedican al tráfico intergaláctico de genes con otras especies sentientes con las que se entrecruzan y viven simbióticamente. En este artículo exploro las formas en que el feminismo ha históricamente conceptualizado la maternidad para ilustrar cómo la monstruosa maternidad interespecista de Lillith articula un nuevo orden relacional que escapa a la lógica de la dominación y apunta a posibles formas de resistencia simbólica a la crisis ecosocial contemporánea en el registro polimorfo de la imaginación prefigurativa.
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