Terror y terrorismo. Una aproximación a Nuestra parte de noche de Mariana Enríquez.

Abstract

The literary work of Mariana Enríquez1 is an emerging subject of study in Argentine literary criticism, and is increasingly growing. Publications regarding her work focus primarily on her early works, such as her novel "Going Down Is the Worst" (1995), as well as her two most popular short story collections, both domestically and internationally. These include "The Dangers of Smoking in Bed" (2009) and "The Things We Lost in the Fire" (2016). However, regarding her penultimate and still recent novel "Our Share of the Night" (2019), there is still less work on the subject and is increasingly emerging. In this research, we propose to examine this novel by Enríquez. To do so, it will be constantly linked to other elements of her work, such as certain short stories from the aforementioned collections, as well as critical and essayistic texts and reviews of other works found in the volume entitled "The Other Side" (2020). Part of our research also includes excerpts from interviews given by the author. As another approach, in this work we will conduct a comparative reading of Our Share of Night with other literary works by other authors, from which we detect influences, references, and allusions reflected in the novel. Thus, the topic of this dissertation is the treatment of horror in the novel Our Share of Night. To explore this treatment, we will establish a relationship between supernatural horror as a literary genre and state terrorism as a theme within it, which together comprise Enríquez's characteristic social horror.