Human bodies/animal attributes: : an interpretation of Patricia de Souza’s work

Abstract

This article covers the analysis of three literary texts by Peruvian author Patricia de Souza (El último cuerpo de Úrsula; Electra en la ciudad; Erótika: escenas de la vida sexual) from the perspective of the relational representation between human bodies and animal attributes. This approach privileges a posture of reflection in which the human and the animal are arranged in a continuous line of becoming, which undoes the idea of an excluding categorical opposition between the two, since it is maintained that the animal already coexists in the human.