The Social Spaces in Mutation
Sex, Violence and Autism in Albertina Carri'sLa rabia(2008)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Inela Selimovic (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-533 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2015.1091297 |
| OpenAlex | W2281587568 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay studies the abrupt mutations of social spaces that suffuse Albertina Carri’s La rabia (2008) through the presence, expressiveness, and art of an autistic child's subjectivity. In depicting such mutations, the film becomes a narrative on gender-based violence, especially in socially isolated settings in Argentine society. The key setting in the film – the airy and open pampas – is not, therefore, just a physical dimension with its culturally encrusted attributes but a terrain for the complexities of domestic violence, struggles with undiagnosed autism, and sexually crude co-dependencies. As the film progresses – tinted with rigid patriarchal ways of life – the immensity of the represented landscape grows increasingly more claustrophobic with each social interaction. The intricate role of the child’s cognitive otherness – her simple, candid yet stirring autistic familial ethnography – ultimately expounds on complex manifestations of interpersonal abandonment within a diegetic locale shaped by patriarchal structures in ruins
Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Autism · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Literature · Locale (computer software · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Studies · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |