Women imagining new cartographies in the post-mill ennial Argentina

Authors

  • María José Punte Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina; Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

Referring to the generation of writers of the new millennium as “nomadic subjects”, it has become already insufficient. Bodies and subjectivities are used to overstep different types of boundaries: physical, linguistic, discursive genres. The current challenge for these writers seems to be not the desire to cross borders, as the temptation of inhabiting them, establishing a “home on the crossroads” (Bauman). In this game of the articulation of these boundaries, a group of three Argentine writers, show us in their writings a contemporary way of conceiving space, as a collage of different places that don’t belong to each other; temporality is conceived as an assembly of time zones; language, as lost in translations. Three works will be addressed: En el hotel cápsula (2017) by Lucía Puenzo, Algún lugar (2017) by Paloma Vidal and V (2017) by Mariana Docampo.

Keywords:

argentine literature, space, bodies, postmillennial generation