Heridas y cicatrices del horror: cuerpos inermes y cuerpos insumisos en la narrativa de Mariana Enríquez

Abstract

This essay examines three instances of the wounded body in the narrative of the Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez: the wounds caused by femicidal patriarchy, state terrorism, and neoliberalism. Drawing from Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero and her discussion on the vulnerable body and the helpless body, I analyze these three wounds, focusing on the struggles of the bodies, either individually or collectively but always within long-lasting effects of violence and horror. In Enríquez’s narrative, the exploration of scars accounts for those bodies that have been injured, or are conceived as precarious or discarded, but also for forms of resistance and rebellion that either regenerate defenseless bodies or enter in alliance with other bodies in order to resist and survive.