Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enríquez

In 2021, Anagrama published Alguien camina sobre tu tumba. Notable among her books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, are Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Anagrama, 2016 in English, Things We Lost in the Fire, Granta Books, 2017), which received the City of Barcelona Prize, and Nuestra parte de noche (Our Part of Night, Anagrama, 2019), winner of the Herralde Prize for the Novel, as well as the Critics’ Prize, and the Celsius Prize at the Gijón Noir Week. Her first novel was Bajar es lo peor (Going Down Is the Worst, Galerna, 1995), after which she published travel books and collections of short stories, mainly in the domain of terror literature. The chapter also examines the remarkable “spectacularization” of the writer, the increasing precarity of the literary profession, and the professionalization of mediators, and the “Randomization” of Latin American literature.A writer, journalist and teacher, Mariana Enriquez is one of the leading names of contemporary gothic literature, deputy director of the supplement “Radar” of the daily Página/12, and Director of Letters in Argentina’s National Fund of the Arts.

Lastly, the most significant changes that have taken place in the modes of production, circulation, and reception of Latin American narrative concern material culture, including the growth of independent publishing, fairs, and festivals. Of all of them, those that have become the most relevant are feminist and queer literature, since writing by women, feminized bodies, and dissident subjectivities has taken an unprecedented center stage in the Latin American literary field during the last decade. nomadic, digital, neoruralism) that appealed to both national and global identities.

After 2001, there was a proliferation of many aesthetics and new turns (subjective, documentary, post-memory, neorealism, neofantasy, feminist, queer. The Latin American narrative of the twenty-first century has its roots in the 1990s, when globalization, new technologies, and the processes of expansion and consolidation of the Spanish publishing conglomerates impacted on the book market.

Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enríquez