SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN’İN KURTARMA MESAFESİ VE MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ’İN KARA SULARIN DİBİNDE ESERLERİNDE FEMİNİST EKO-GOTİK
FEMINIST ECO-GOTHIC IN SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN’S FEVER DREAM AND MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ’S UNDER THE BLACK WATER

Summary/Abstract: Unlike Europe, where Gothic literature emerged from medieval castles and haunted mansions, the Gothic in Latin American literature originated in ordinary homes and everyday life. Today, a movement known as the “New Latin American Gothic” has emerged, led by women writers born in or after the 1970s, such as Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez, Mónica Ojeda, and Fernanda Melchor. These writers employ gothic elements to address political and social issues, revitalizing horror literature as a political critique. In Argentine literature, themes of ecological exploitation, military dictatorship, state violence, femicides, and drugrelated violence manifest as elements of horror. The emergence of gothic elements in response to the ecological crisis corresponds to a new literary approach. Referred to as “ecogothic,” this approach examines the gothic through ecocritical theories and portrays nature as a threatening space. This article argues that the eco-gothic approach in Argentine literature adopts an ecofeminist perspective to highlight extractivist processes that exploit nature and expose their impact on women. Accordingly, this article aims to analyze Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream and Mariana Enríquez’s Under the Black Water from an ecocritical perspective to reveal how feminist eco-gothic has developed in Argentine literature and what elements it is based on.

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