Invoke the archive Writing the impossible from the south Escribir lo imposible desde el sur

Abstract

This article proposes to think about a queer affective archive from the categories of the affective turn and deconstruction. We consider that archiving is a political gesture and the archive concept supposes a theory of cultural relevance, in which different forms of narrative economy come into play. We start from a situated thought [dis/oriented to the south] and the ways in which we can read the texts that build identities. In this invocation of an affective archive. We are interested in thinking about the word count both in the sense of counting as a narrative, and in what counts for its value to ask us: How the affective ties of queer/lesbian life are counted? in two novels La insumisa de Cristina Peri Rossi (2022) y En la casa de los sueños (2022) de Cármen María Machado. We maintain that the narrative economy constructs differential ways of telling stories that deviate from the heterocisexual norm and that escape from the institutionalized forms of the archive. We cros over the archive concepts of Jacques Derrida, Anne Cvetkovich and José Esteban Muñoz to put into play that queer archives can be read as a deconstructed archive, that is, as a constellation of ephemeral traces, insofar as they are and are not a presence.