Chilean Lina Meruane To present his book of short stories, he returned to Spain, where he had recently lived for two years, teaching in Madrid at New York University, where he worked. ‘Greed’ (Páginas de Espuma) and during his stay in Barcelona, History hit him with a capital letter about the bombing of the Gaza Hospital and the death of 500 people; Another step in the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It shocked him and made him suffer.
And Meruane, descendant of Palestinians The young girl who immigrated to the Latin American country is another one of those important community that pushes her to search for her own identity in Chile. ‘Palestine is falling apart’‘, a book in which he weaves family memory, travel history and an essay on language and politics. So before we talk about his disturbing fictions, cruelty and violence, Carefully considering each of his words, he agrees to point out that the current tensions in the Middle East cannot be read without context: “Many people interpret this as a specific problem that is happening right now. We have to address the geopolitics of the problem associated with the last 75 years of Palestinian history, the illegal Israeli occupation that has spread into Palestinian lands, surrounded and transformed the people. Gaza is in prison outdoor”.
an unequal situation
with Meruane relatives West Bank paints the moment as a conflict between Hamas, admired by some Palestinians for its “decisive response”, and the state of Israel, led by the Zionist far right, in “the most authoritarian moment of its politics”: “The situation is completely unequal. They are two opposing forces who do not want to give up anything. The difference is that Israel is a power of arms and a nation recognized by the world, while Palestine is oppressed and does not have international recognition, duties and rights as a state.
Meruane approaches the situation with concern and is particularly astonished by Europe’s uncompromising support for Israel, “so much so that it prevented pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Germany.” In this country, which is particularly sensitive to anything that could be interpreted as antisemitism, the award given to Palestinian writer Adania Shibli at the Frankfurt Fair was canceled last year, and the award was withdrawn there as well last year. Perhaps the greatest British playwright is Caryl Churchill for his support of the Palestinian people.
Meruane refuses to answer questions that have a binary answer of black or white and therefore says she prefers not to use the word. terrorism When he talks about Hamas’ actions. He uses the highly recommended French-Israeli documentary to argue this: ‘Gatekeepers’, Many of the former presidents’ appearances can be watched with subtitles on You Tube. Shin Bet, domestic intelligence service On the state of Israel: “While one of the interviewees said that Palestinians are terrorists in Israel’s eyes, Palestinians claim the same thing about Israelis. An Israeli agent also says this.”
Mutant girls and transhuman women
Only about his book titled ‘Avidez’ that he introduced violence and cruelty It can be considered as the common denominator of the conflict in the Middle East underlying his stories, but he prefers to leave direct political reflections in his writings. Meruane sees herself as part of a group Latin American writers Having had the experience of living under a dictatorship and the pressure it brings, they have also, like many of their colleagues, thought closely about gender violence. “A lot of women, especially younger ones, name names, woman’s murderBefore we go any further, let’s talk about situations that have been silenced or deemed crimes of passion in the past.
Children eating their mothers, mutant girls born with forked tongues, the shaved skin of erotic teenagers or transhuman pregnant women come together in a book that stimulates the author’s characteristic obsessions: from childhood to adolescence in women, illnessrelationships mothers and daughtersA. hunger very physical and unhealthy sexual appetite. It’s not for nothing that Meruane is the daughter of doctors.
All these images are channeled by a certain person. her dark feminism is less thoughtful, militant, and revealing than what appears in her writings. Like his ‘rant’, the definition is his ‘Against the children’. “In my stories,” he assures, “I wanted Think of women in places far from kindness“Even if that means getting into more brutal situations where they inflict violence on other women because they too have adopted patriarchal and authoritarian models.” Reading Meruane is an experience from which you cannot emerge unscathed.