In Flight with a "Rara Avis": Conversations with Tununa Mercado

Abstract

These conversations explore the outlines of Tununa Mercado as a fundamental thinker who teaches, in the movements of her work and her voice, like the great weavers of all time, that wefts cannot be divided without decomposing the fabric. So the threads of literature, philosophy, politics, criticism, aesthetics, and memories are intertwined, interwoven, and constit longly woven into her writing. In this sense, the proposed conversational journey covers her life and work, without separating one from the other, while offering a walk through different problems. Among others, the link with writing, thought, reading and the ways in which all this is combined in different ways in their insubordinate itineraries, their junctions in memory, the tensions and openings of their debates around language, feminisms and their un-gendered way of write.