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Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin AmericaBeyond the Human: Maternity, Affect, and Monstrous Lives in the Narrative of Argentine Writer Samanta Schweblin

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America: Beyond the Human: Maternity, Affect, and Monstrous... [In a context of stark transformation of gender and queer rights, activism, and life sustaining practices, the narrative work of Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin forms part of the insistent thematization of experiences of maternity, kinship and care in recent national fiction. I propose that, throughout her production, such focus is expanded beyond the realm of the human to think through the broader potentialities of motherhood and (re)production in connection to the living and the animal. As I will show through my reading of three short stories published in the 2019 collection Mouthful of Birds, Schweblin’s work probes the affective and material work entailed in life sustenance and care. Maternal care is here recast through the concrete process of physical nutrition, and attention is drawn to its entanglement with productive capitalist practices. This writing thus opens space to imagine fresh physical configurations and assemblages of the human and the non-human as well as alternative forms of distribution of life sustaining affects, relations and material care.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin AmericaBeyond the Human: Maternity, Affect, and Monstrous Lives in the Narrative of Argentine Writer Samanta Schweblin

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Macón, Cecilia; Solana, Mariela; Vacarezza, Nayla Luz
Francica, Cynthia
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America — Feb 23, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-59368-1
Pages
127 –149
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59369-8_7
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Abstract

[In a context of stark transformation of gender and queer rights, activism, and life sustaining practices, the narrative work of Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin forms part of the insistent thematization of experiences of maternity, kinship and care in recent national fiction. I propose that, throughout her production, such focus is expanded beyond the realm of the human to think through the broader potentialities of motherhood and (re)production in connection to the living and the animal. As I will show through my reading of three short stories published in the 2019 collection Mouthful of Birds, Schweblin’s work probes the affective and material work entailed in life sustenance and care. Maternal care is here recast through the concrete process of physical nutrition, and attention is drawn to its entanglement with productive capitalist practices. This writing thus opens space to imagine fresh physical configurations and assemblages of the human and the non-human as well as alternative forms of distribution of life sustaining affects, relations and material care.]

Published: Feb 23, 2021

Keywords: Motherhood; Samanta Schweblin; Maternal care; Argentine literature; Non-human animals

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