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Slum Literature in Twenty-First Century Buenos Aires

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Abstract

Since the economic crisis of 2001, slums have taken on a new role, becoming central spaces for Argentine cultural production. This essay, conceived as a survey, aims to analyze how certain examples of twenty-first-century slum literature propose the possibility of a slum aesthetic that highlights the productivity of these spaces. This is not achieved through their romanticization as sites of lost purity or human solidarity, but rather through an exploration of their potential as territories from which to understand the contemporary urban condition and articulate a critical perspective on the city of Buenos Aires.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 1, 2024 | Accepted: Jan. 28, 2025 | Published June 20, 2025 | Language: es

Keywords Gabriela Cabezón Cámara • Literatura argentina • Literatura marginal • Slums • Fernanda Laguna • Sergio Chejfec • César Aira • Marginal literature • Villas miseria • Argentine literature • César González

Copyright © 2025 Agnese Codebò. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2025/24/003


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