Look how the weeds grow in the language. Body and Coloniality in Piñen by Daniela Catrileo

Abstract

This article deals with Daniela Catrileo's writing strategy. It proposes to review the elaboration of the concept of piñen by examining the relationship between language and coloniality, in order to thereby highlight the political and vindicatory potential it entails in the novel of the same name Piñen (2019). Such hypothesis will articulate the reading exercise proposed here, mainly attending to the narrative strategies employed -the use of a polylinguism that breaks grammatical structures- to decenter language from its colonial determinism. Thus, we interpret this writing strategy in consonance with the micro-political and decolonizing powers of art described by Suely Rolnik and, consequently, betting on the possibility of diagramming a minority becoming that disputes the imaginaries of the colonial-capital unconscious.