When the signifier betrays the subject. Polyphony and sabotage in Tres almas para un corazón, a novel by Guillermina Mekuy Obono (2011)

Abstract

This article analyzes Tres almas para un corazón (2011), a novel by the Guinean-Ecuadorian writer Guillermina Mekuy. The rightness of criticism as sabotage for this investigation resides in the analysis of the affective syllogism as the mode and origin of the world model of discourse, as well as the attention to the author, as a complex subject, responsible for that model.This novel is presented by its author as a feminist and decolonial practice. However, criticism as sabotage will show how such a perspective is diluted in the analysis of its significant materiality, where the modern/colonial gender world model is reaffirmed, a fact that contradicts the conscious motivation of the writer.