Women from outer space: disassembling mutant writing

Abstract

Based on Ileana Diéguez’s idea of “dismantling”, this first-person reflection article will dismantle the poetic-political-performative processes that gave birth to my book/performance The Extraterrestrials. Structured as a script in five acts, it alternates between the theoretical and methodological reflections of an undisciplined woman of letters and different actions and texts that are part of the performative reading of the book. The first act situates my position as a writer and creator in the academy, revisiting discussions of research- creation and my interest in poiesis. The second act makes a characterization from literature, thinking with Reinaldo Laddaga about the new questions that open up for the literary text in the “era of book declination”; the third act explores rage as an engine of writing from a feminist perspective, through a dialogue with Audre Lorde, Laura Quintana, and the file of angry feminists who were part of the research for writing; the fourth act talks about how performative writing, used poetically, shapes the writing of this book, inspired by the blasphemous and criminal, non-creative, dis-appropriative and composting aesthetics proposed by Kenneth Goldsmith, Veronica Gerber, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Donna Haraway; the fifth act speaks of how I situate myself in the expanded field of literature, of the relationship I establish with performance and of the particular way in which this book