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Borders Inscribed on the Body: Geopolitics and the Everyday in the Work of Martín Kohan
Author(s) -
McAllister Catriona
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13089
Subject(s) - militarism , geopolitics , dictatorship , nationalism , narrative , state (computer science) , reading (process) , sociology , gender studies , inscribed figure , identity (music) , national identity , aesthetics , political science , politics , literature , law , art , geometry , mathematics , algorithm , computer science , democracy
This article analyses the critique of militaristic geopolitical worldviews in two novels by Martín Kohan ( Dos veces junio , 2002 and Ciencias morales , 2007). Drawing on ‘everyday nationalism’ and the insights of feminist geopolitics, it explores these novels' use of space and gendered violence to present Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship and the Falklands/Malvinas war as unexceptional manifestations of the relationship between the state and its citizens. This reading foregrounds Kohan's emphasis on the origins and consequences of national identity discourses, framed as powerful narratives capable of generating a vision of the nation‐state that privileges the security of borders over bodies.