Orificios, protuberancias y cuerpos desobedientes: monstruosidades abyectas en la narrativa breve de Guadalupe Nettel y Lina Meruane

This paper analyses the short stories “Hongos” (El matrimonio de los peces rojos, 2013) by Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico, 1973) and “Lo profundo” (Avidez, 2023) by Lina Meruane (Chile, 1970) through the intersection between gender studies, body studies, and monster and abjection theories. Based on a first review of body limits in contemporary Latin American narratives written by women, we aim to propose the vindication of abjection as one of its action strategies from a markedly feminist perspective. In this sense, it is argued that the reterritorialization of the diseased and monstrous body works in the stories analyzed as a sociopolitical strategy that questions the compulsory desirable bodiedness patterned by the patriarchal gaze.