Abstract
This article proposes reflection on the writing policies in current Hispanic American literature that work on the borderline of institutionalized aesthetic forms, which undermines the tradition of the literary genre. To do so, we analyze Mario Bellatin’s novels, which deviate from autobiography to fiction in an irreverent way, and the rare books organized by Diamela Eltit, in which she shapes the matter of testimonial in tune with her fictional universe. With the Foucaultian notion of transgression, we approach these aesthetic forms as writing policies that resist the confinement of the literary word in the natural transparency of genre limits.
Key words:
literary genre; transgression; Mario Bellatin; Diamela Eltit; autobiography; testimonial