Affection and cruelty: animal welfare and the biopolitics of motherhood in La perra by Pilar Quintana
This article analyzes the novel La perra (2017) by Pilar Quintana from the perspective of animal welfare in dialogue with biopolitical perspectives and critical studies on motherhood and affect. It is argued that the relationship between Damaris and Chirli not only represents an emotional projection...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades. Instituto de Letras "Alfredo Veiravé"
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/clt/article/view/9342 |
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| Sumario: | This article analyzes the novel La perra (2017) by Pilar Quintana from the perspective of animal welfare in dialogue with biopolitical perspectives and critical studies on motherhood and affect. It is argued that the relationship between Damaris and Chirli not only represents an emotional projection derived from the frustrated desire for motherhood, but also exposes a regime of life management where animality becomes a space of ethical and political dispute. Through the dialogue with ecocritical studies, animal becoming, and the aesthetics of (un)happiness, it is proposed that Chirli's killing constitutes an act of domestic sovereignty that reveals the differential precariousness of interspecies lives. The article suggests that animal welfare allows questioning the affective and normative devices that determine which lives are worthy of care and which may become expendable. |
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