Appeared, disappeared

The Short Stories of Mariana Enriquez and the Ghosts of the Argentine Dictatorship

Authors

  • Ana Laura Horbach Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.151023

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the short story “Sob a água Negra” (Enriquez, 2017), by the Argentine author Mariana Enriquez, responds to the political subject matter of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) and its lingering presence today using the techniques common to the horror literature tradition. Through the reading of critical bibliography on horror literature and the Gothic tradition in Argentine literature found in Cortázar (1975), Drucaroff (2016; 2021), Gamerro (2023), Sarlo (2007; 2012), Vedda (2021) and Ostrov et alii (2023), this text seeks to provide some keys for interpreting the relationship between Enriquez’s literature and the Argentine socio-political subject matter to which it responds.

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Author Biography

Ana Laura Horbach, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

* Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Published

2026-06-15

How to Cite

HORBACH, Ana Laura. Appeared, disappeared: The Short Stories of Mariana Enriquez and the Ghosts of the Argentine Dictatorship. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 70, p. 109–131, 2026. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.151023. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/151023. Acesso em: 8 aug. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários