Transnational and gothic discourses have for some time been paired in critical invoca-tions of the unhomely or spectral legacies of imperialism and globalization. Even if the fracture that trauma provokes in our female protagonists is usually read as negative, the self seeks reintegration as the fragmentation and hybridization that result from the assimilation of the posthuman is potentially liberating. Additionally, these posthuman tropes symbolically point to the ills of globalization, consumerism and late capitalism they evoke the new conditions of traumatic enslavement under technoscience, offering some hope for ironic reformulation (Ferrández San Miguel 2018, 31-32). In her seminal essay "A cyborg Manifesto," Haraway famously introduces the concept of the cyborg as "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction" ( 1991, 149). Key cultural manifestations of the connections of trauma, biopower and the posthuman are the figures of the cyborg, the zombie and the surrogate, which undermine key dualisms of the Western philosophical tradition. The discourse of posthumanity, characterized by its opposition to, and transcendence of humanism foregrounds questions regarding what constitutes the human, exploring the boundaries of subjectivity and the body. The object of prominent philosophical and critical attention in the last decades of the twentieth century are the theories of trauma and the posthuman, which have become key frameworks to approaching contemporary culture and its artifacts. Sección de Filosofía, 27-28 de febrero 2019. III Simposio Internacional: Precarización de la vida, violencia y exclusiones sociales. In 2021, she published HUMAN SACRIFICIES (SACRIFICIOS HUMANOS, Páginas de Espuma), and she was finalist for the Tigre Juan Price Award and The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award.Feminist Fiction. She has been recipient of the first Mad Women Fest 2018 Short Story Prize. In 2016 she received the Cosecha Eñe Award for Short Stories. COCKFIGHT (PELEA DE GALLOS, Páginas de Espuma, 2018) was her first short story book, and its success was overwhelming. She has published the narrative non-fiction books WHAT I LEARNED AT THE HAIR SALON (LO QUE APRENDÍ EN LA PELUQUERÍA, Dinediciones, 2011) and RESIDENCE PERMIT (PERMISO DE RESIDENCIA, La Caracola Editores, 2013). In 2012, she was selected as one of the 100 most influential Latin-Americans in Spain, where she resides. Ampuero is the editor of the short-story section in the cultural supplement of the Spanish newspaper ABC and teaches journalism in the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) is a writer and a journalist. She has published articles in newspapers and magazines around the world.
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