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Writing the Antiportrait: Decapitations and Fragmented Identity in Roque Larraquy's La comemadre and Eduardo Rubinschik's La entereza.

This article examines the figures of decapitation in Roque Larraquy's novel La comemadre (2010) and Eduardo Rubinschik's La entereza (2017) as both a provocative aesthetic strategy and a self-reflexive political gesture. Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between literary studies and recent theor...

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Published in:Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 227 - 249
Main Authors: Jirsa, Tomáš, Nemrava, Daniel
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2026
Subjects:
La comemadre (Book)
La entereza (Book)
Larraquy, Roque
Rubinschik, Eduardo
Aesthetics
Portraits
Gesture
Nationalism
Argentine literature
21st century (Literary period)
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