Gender, Waste, and the Uncanny Home in Única mirando al mar

• Jennifer Abercrombie Foster ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Kansas

     University of Kansas

     City of Lawrence, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 17, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall 2019), págs. 203-221
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the novel Única mirando al mar (1993) by Costa Rican author Fernando Contreras Castro, a community of trash pickers make a new life for themselves within an overflowing garbage dump. I employ psychoanalytic categories to address how Contreras’s protagonists accept the normalization of disaster and decay within a neoliberal, post-revolutionary context. I complicate the notion of disenchanted normalcy (perpetuated by neoliberal policies) by exploring gender’s role within abject spaces. Within an uncanny domestic setting, ruin and abjection provide a theoretical space in which readers may see the social-constructedness of gendered roles and spheres of influence