Nuevos canibalismos entre subcultura de la rareza y normalización: “Paladar” de Solange Rodríguez Pappe

Present article considers the short story “Paladar” (La primera vez que vi un fanstama, 2020) by the Ecuadorian writer Solange Rodríguez Pappe and aims to analyze how food, the epicenter of the story, acts as the catalyst for the unusual, understood as contra-cultural dissidence as well as textual conno-tation. On the one hand, food coincides with the gap that exists between the concepts of visibility of the sign and invisibility of the ideological message that the sign transmits in the subculture (Hedbige 2004), and which is materialized in the anti-normative process which objects and practices considered trivial in the dominant culture undergo. On the other hand, the strangeness understood as the problematic ontological category attributed to Latin America is integrated with the unusual as a textual status. Finally, it will be analyzed how the fertile connection between food, body and strangeness is realized in the final image that alludes to cannibalism