Cuerpo y archivo en la escritura autoetnográfica de Gabriela Wiener: el caso de Huaco retrato
Body and archive in Gabriela Wiener's autoethnographic writing: the case of Huaco retrato

Summary/Abstract: In Huaco retrato (2021), the autoethnographic approach to the present of the migrant includes the rereading of the textual archive of Charles Wiener, the European archipatriarch who came to Peru in the late nineteenth century to lay the foundations for archaeological studies. From the critique of bodily representation by the social and human sciences and focusing on the limits of text, this article analyses the semantic field of the gaze in the decolonial context. The limits of the visual acquire meaning in the anarchivistic work with the institutional archive, experiences of self-guided tours in museum exhibitions and in the affective dialogue with the personal archive of scenes representing the colonialist present of the West and within the hidden history of the deceased father. The epiphanies resulting from these textual encounters are driven by the emotions they arouse in a migrant and racialised woman, connecting her to concrete cultural artefacts in which she recognises the colonial experience of her body. In an attempt to reverse the classifying gaze of the archive, the themes treated in this book are consistent with its hybrid form, embodying a gesture of resistance through literary assemblage that activates conflicts and draws attention to the contingencies.

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