Mariana Enríquez On Using Horror to Process Historical Trauma

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mariana Enríquez is one of the best-known writers of a growing literary trend in Latin America that uses the horror genre to denounce the violent realities of the region—past and present. Mariana was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, just a few years before a military junta took over the democratic government in Argentina, and grew up in a country under a brutal dictatorship. She retreated to books and writing to process that historical trauma.

In this episode, Mariana shares how her connection with horror started, how she uses the genre to speak of her reality, and she reads from her latest novel Our Share of Night.

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0:00.0	This is Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture.
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0:34.3	No se vayan.
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1:04.2	Everybody has to find their voice to tell the traumatic events of their generation and
1:11.1	there's no genre that is less legitimate than other.
1:17.0	Horror was my language and everything that happened was horror.
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1:29.1	I'm Maria Inohosa.
1:30.3	Today, Mariana Enrique is unprocessing Argentina's horrors through fiction.
1:43.8	The stories Mariana Enrique's rights are populated by monsters, witches, ghosts, and other
1:51.0	creatures that refuse to stay dead.
1:57.2	She writes about people who encounter haunted houses and demonic possessions, but her fiction
2:04.5	is grounded in reality.
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