The social terror. Vindication of a “minor” gender: ecocriticism and ecofeminism in “Bajo el agua negra” and “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” by Mariana Enríquez

Abstract

Understanding the narrative of Mariana Enríquez as a hybrid discursive sphere where stories of social vindication and protest dwell interstitially with tales of horror as in the traditional genre expression of the sordid and sinister, the purpose of this work is to develop an analysis of the different instances of mutation of bodies as narrative spaces of social condemnation, in terms of situations of both domination of an “otherness” and the hierarchically inferior, as well as its direct correlation with environmental domination and oppression of the natural world, as a prolongation of the desire to submit