Affective and perceptive fictions of precariousness in recent Argentine literature
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p282-316Keywords:
Contemporary Argentine Literature, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Affectivities, César AiraAbstract
Recent Argentine literature highlights how precarity impacts lives, reorganizes bodies and affective connections, permeates subjectivities —exposed to increasing uncertainty, vulnerability, and instability—, alters ways of inhabiting and navigating spaces, and shapes the forms that social relationships take, particularly the possibilities of perceiving, understanding, and naming others. This article addresses the emergence of affective and perceptive fictions of precariousness that explore the links between poverty and frameworks of recognition, showing how the perception of others impacts subjectivities and the circulation of affect. The essay provides an overview of these fictions, focusing on their predominant features as well as certain nuances and shifts they exhibit in shaping experiences of precariousness. Additionally, it includes an analysis of La guerra de los gimnasios by César Aira to delve deeper into the proposed trends.
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