Gift and blood in "La Sed", By Marina Yuszczuk

Authors

  • Leonardo Graná Universidad del Salvador

Keywords:

gift, exaction, vampire, gender-based violence, patriarchy

Abstract

Our field of research focuses mainly on the fiction of human trafficking in contemporary Argentine literature, in which field of research we use the concept of “forced gift” of the feminine as explained by Maurice Godelier and Rita Segato: the violent exaction that imaginarily and materially appropriates body, life,symbolic goods, and practices of women. For this paper, our objective will be to read the novel La sed (2020), by Marina Yuszczuk. This work won the Sara Gallardo National Novel Award in 2021. It is a horror fiction, in which we have as a central figure a vampire who travels from Europe to America, specifically to Argentina in the 1960s. We will read the novel within this general framework of reflection on gender violence with the hypothesis that this fiction navigates between tensions of eros and horror in a search to have an imaginary impact on the sex-gender system.

Author Biography

Leonardo Graná, Universidad del Salvador

Licenciado y profesor en Letras por la Universidad del Salvador, donde se desempeña como docente de Literatura Argentina e Introducción a la Literatura. Es magíster en Sociología de la Cultura y Análisis Cultural por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Correo electrónico: leonardo.grana@usal.edu.ar

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Published

2024-07-04

How to Cite

Graná, L. (2024). Gift and blood in "La Sed", By Marina Yuszczuk. Gramma , 34(71). Retrieved from https://p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/gramma/article/view/6993

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 71 (2023): Dossier: "Land and Terror: The Horrors of Argentine Literature"

Section

Dossier: "Land and Terror: The Horrors of Argentine Literature"

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