Extrañas llagas: vías del rostro descarnado y fábulas de género en “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” (2016) y “Los pájaros de la noche” (2024) de Mariana Enríquez

Abstract

This paper puts in dialogue two stories by the Argentine authorMariana Enríquez, “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” (2016) and “Los pájaros de la noche (2024). We will analyzethe political potentialof monstrosity from a situated gender perspective focusing on a conceptual figure that draws a line of continuity between the two textstakes different shapes: the woman with the decomposing face. In particular, we will explore the possibilities of this corporeality as a signifier of gender violence will be analyzed to disarticulate the founding scenes of such violence from the field of fiction.