Haitiano/as en Santiago de Chile. Representaciones del otro latinoamericano/chileno/haitiano como paria en Perro Bomba (2019)
Haitians in Santiago de Chile – Representations of the Latin American/Chilean/Haitian Other as a Pariah in Perro Bomba (2019)

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes an analysis of the Chilean fi lm Perro Bomba (2019). It tells the story of a Haitian migrant in Santiago who, as a result of a racist incident, turns into a pariah aft er being an assimilated immigrant, according to the terminology of Arendt and Varikas. As a migrant, he also shares traits with what Ahmed has called the melancholic migrant. The protagonist’s tour of the city shows at the same time the reverse of Chile as an economic “oasis”, and in this way anticipates the so-called social explosion that occurred from October 2019 onwards. An important element of the analysis is the aesthetic and political approach of the fi lm, which falls between fiction and documentary and assumes in itself and at different levels –narration, staging, production– a positioning and perspective from the conscious pariah.

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