Esas vidas desdichadas: figuraciones de lo precario en los cuentos de Mariana Enriquez
Argentine literature captures the political, economic, social, spatial, and cultural transformations brought about by the full implementation of neoliberalism during the 1990s and early 21st century through configurations of experience and the redistribution of the visible. This paper proposes the e...
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Universidad Nacional del Litoral
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/15128 |
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| Sumario: | Argentine literature captures the political, economic, social, spatial, and cultural transformations brought about by the full implementation of neoliberalism during the 1990s and early 21st century through configurations of experience and the redistribution of the visible. This paper proposes the emergence of affective and perceptual fictions of precarity that accommodate social subjects affected by poverty or in the process of impoverishment, as well as lives marked by misery, instability, fragility, and lack of protection. These are perceptual fictions, as they manage to fracture the normative frameworks of recognition, making the emergence of precarious subjects possible; they are also affective fictions, as this phenomenon impacts subjectivities, altering the realm of perception and the disposition of emotions. Additionally, the paper examines the configuration of precarity in Mariana Enriquez’s short stories «El carrito» and «El chico sucio», analyzing the characterization of impoverished subjects through figures, topics, and images that reactivate cultural grammars around poverty while also transgressing them; it also explores the construction of the poor as a threatening alterity, a «poor-monster» that can provoke sensations of danger as well as stubborn fascination. |
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