{"title":"¿Te cuento una historia de horror? Representación de la maternidad en la obra reciente de Mariana Enriquez y de Samanta Schweblin","authors":"Catalina Forttes Zalaquett","doi":"10.29393/atat523-422cftc10422","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Th e objective of this article is to analyze the representation of motherhood in a selection of short stories by Mariana Enriquez and Samanta Schweblin as read within the conventions of the gothic genre. I argue that the use of the genre enables the problematization of the representation of motherhood and care work as horror draws attention to the anxieties that, in our culture, have justifi ed patriarchal intervention. Th is analysis focuses on two conventions featured by the genre: fi rst the haunted house as the space where maternal mandates repress individual and social horrors; and secondly, technological intervention as a way to dominate and/or eliminate the mother pp. 287-304 * Artículo asociado al proyecto Fondecyt Regular No 1200535, “Narrar lo indecible: Gótico, autofi cción y maternidad en la narrativa latinoamericana reciente”. ** PhD. en Lenguas y Literaturas Hispánicas. Académica de la Pontifi cia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. Correo electrónico: catalina.forttes@pucv.cl. Orcid: https://orcid. org/0000-0002-7072-1474","PeriodicalId":8621,"journal":{"name":"Atenea (Concepción)","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Atenea (Concepción)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.29393/atat523-422cftc10422","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Th e objective of this article is to analyze the representation of motherhood in a selection of short stories by Mariana Enriquez and Samanta Schweblin as read within the conventions of the gothic genre. I argue that the use of the genre enables the problematization of the representation of motherhood and care work as horror draws attention to the anxieties that, in our culture, have justifi ed patriarchal intervention. Th is analysis focuses on two conventions featured by the genre: fi rst the haunted house as the space where maternal mandates repress individual and social horrors; and secondly, technological intervention as a way to dominate and/or eliminate the mother pp. 287-304 * Artículo asociado al proyecto Fondecyt Regular No 1200535, “Narrar lo indecible: Gótico, autofi cción y maternidad en la narrativa latinoamericana reciente”. ** PhD. en Lenguas y Literaturas Hispánicas. Académica de la Pontifi cia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. Correo electrónico: catalina.forttes@pucv.cl. Orcid: https://orcid. org/0000-0002-7072-1474