¿Cómo narrar la violencia en la postdictadura argentina? Desplazamientos en Ese verano a oscuras de Mariana Enriquez

Abstract

This article examines the implementation of the «displacement» strategy (Piglia 2009) in the story Ese verano a oscuras (2019) by Mariana Enriquez. This device is mainly operated through the Southern Gothic and the figure of the American serial killer, and by means of certain «thematic stains» («manchas temáticas») typical of the New Argentine Narrative (Drucaroff 2011, 2016), the literary current to which Enriquez belongs. The combination of these elements allows not only for an oblique account of the violence during Argentina’s last dictatorship and its aftermath, but also for a metafictional commentary on the literary generations that have mobilised the last half-century of Argentine narrative.