Escribir-excavar entre las ruinas del Wasteocene: El libro centroamericano de los muertos y la poética arqueológica post-testimonial de Balam Rodrigo

This article analyzes El libro centroamericano de los muertos (2018) through the forensic archaeology and the Wasteocene (Armiero 2021). I argue that Balam Rodrigo proposes a post-testimonial poetics of literary excavation among the bodies left over by a colonial process of “wasting” (Armiero 2021). Through his archaeological writing, the poet confronts the coloniality of power and gender, reconfiguring the “ruined body” as both a marker of the continuum of colonial violence and a space for resistance in which other worlds can be imagined.