The Insilium: a Debt of Literary Criticism in Latin America

Within the broad scope of themes and aesthetic currents that Latin American literature has produced, displacement in its multiple faces - migration, exile, diaspora - has played a prominent role. However, it is important to note that there are aesthetic projects built on a non-geographic type of human displacement, the insile, which represents one of the great gaps in Latin American literary historiography. In this sense, the aim of this analysis is to compile, through a non-exhaustive bibliographical review, a series of theoretical reflections that can serve as a preliminary systematization on the theme of insile. This compilation will be carried out from the analysis of certain critical and literary works, aiming to propose a reconfiguration of the critical cartography of Latin American literature. For this purpose, the corpus of the work is composed of critical texts by authors such as Jacques Derrida, Elena Palmero Gonz & aacute;lez and Eduardo Lalo, in addition to the novel Los Vigilantes (1994), by Chilean writer Diamela Eltit (1949).