Abstract

ALCARAS, Edwin. The Flâneur and the Latin American Mestizo as Baroque Sujetity Paradigms. Diánoia [online]. 2020, vol.65, n.85, pp.29-53.  Epub Mar 19, 2021. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2020.85.1776.

This article explores two figures: the flâneur (Walter Benjamin) and the "mestizo" (Bolívar Echeverría). Under the word "mestizo" I gather a group of stylistic and rhetorical operations that Echeverría uses to describe mestizaje as a historical phenomenon occurred in the urban societies of spanish Colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. I start with a historical approach to Echeverría's readings of Benjamin from the beginning of the 1990s. Then I show some possible connections between both figures, from the allegorical strategy to the relationship between baroque and modern society. Finally, I conceive them as paradigms (Agamben 2010a) of baroque sujetity; that is, principles of intelligibility of social forms that resist the contradictions of Western modern capitalism.

Keywords : Walter Benjamin; Bolívar Echeverría; mestizaje; Giorgio Agamben; allegory.

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