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BAKUCZ, Dóra. Maternity/paternity and the unlived past: divided and monstrous bodies in contemporary Argentine literature. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.2, pp.34-53.  Epub 05-Ene-2023. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.055.

The article aims to analyze how in the experience of motherhood/fatherhood the human body can become a stamp of certain social, political, ideological, emotional changes that characterize our times on the one hand, and, on the other hand, what generations of the Argentine post-dictatorship inherited from a past they had not personally experienced. The purpose of this work is to study through four contemporary texts by authors of the new Argentine narrative how different types and forms of physical experiences (distance, proximity, transformations of the body) related to the fact of becoming a mother or father activate a series of associations that generate existential tension and anguish. The texts analyzed are two short stories from the anthology El nuevo cuento argentino, una antología (The New Argentine Short Story, An Antology), selected and prefaced by Elsa Drucaroff, and published in 2017 by the University Publishing House of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA: “Lo que ha comenzado” (What has begun) by Alejandra Laurencich (1963-) and “Los viejitos” (The old couple) by Patricia Suárez (1969-), as well as the (short) novels: Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream) by Samanta Schweblin (1978-) and La uruguaya (The Uruguayan Woman) by Pedro Mairal (1970-).

Palabras clave : Maternity/paternity; Bodies; Argentine literature; New Argentine Narrative; Argentine post-dictatorship.

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