PERROS DEL “PARAÍSO”: EL IMAGINARIO DE UNA CIUDADANÍA QUILTRA EN LA NARRATIVA DE VALPARAÍSO

Abstract

: This article analyzes the symbolic implications of the figure of the dog in the literature of Valparaíso. From a perspective which makes textual referents dialogue that account for the antecedents and current situation of the canine imagery in the port city, this presence is interpreted from the becoming-animal proposed by Deleuze and Guattari and other theoretical contributions that are part of what has been called the "Animal Turn" of contemporary thought. The installation of the imaginary of a "quiltro citizenship" is proposed, which relates to the construction, from local literature, of a subject who comes into contact with the so-called animal zone to insert itself into the symbolic dispute of the territory, critically exposing what the hegemonic administrative discourse omits and / or excludes in the process of imposing and homogenizing identity paradigms that the city-image must reflect and reproduce.