The Social Spaces in Mutation: Sex, Violence and Autism in Albertina Carri's La rabia (2008)

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 socia...

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Published inJournal of Latin American cultural studies : travesía Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 517 - 533
Main Author Selimovic, Inela
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.10.2015
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Albertina Carri
Autism
childhood
Children
Domestic violence
gaze
Gender-based violence
Otherness
Social interaction
space
Subjectivity
violence
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1356-9325
1469-9575
DOI:10.1080/13569325.2015.1091297