“Unpredictable Kinds of ‘We’”: Julio Cortázar and the Zoopoetic Imagination

Description

Since its publication in 1956, Julio Cortázar’s short story “Axolotl” has attracted a dizzying array of readings and commentary, yet there has been surprisingly little scholarship from the perspective of animal studies. In this paper, Dr. Kári Driscoll (Utrecht University) reads “Axolotl” as a quintessentially zoopoetic text, in that it negotiates a position between the “question of the animal” and the question of poetic language.

Period	4 Mar 2021
Held at	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Degree of Recognition	National