A Threatening Imperfection: Affective Responses to Migration in Mudanzas by Hebe Uhart
This paper aims to analyze Mudanzas by Hebe Uhart through the lens of affect theory (Ahmed, 2014; 2019; 2024). The narrative of successive relocations to urban centers reveals how certain characters adopt different affective orientations toward the novelty of their journeys. The body that adheres to...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades. Instituto de Letras "Alfredo Veiravé"
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/clt/article/view/9344 |
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| Sumario: | This paper aims to analyze Mudanzas by Hebe Uhart through the lens of affect theory (Ahmed, 2014; 2019; 2024). The narrative of successive relocations to urban centers reveals how certain characters adopt different affective orientations toward the novelty of their journeys. The body that adheres to the trajectory of social mobility does not register estrangement, whereas the body that deviates from the prescribed path, shaped by divergent affective experiences, comes to embody it. The analysis will address how María, unlike Domingo, expresses the possibility of deviating from the supposedly inevitable directionality imposed by modernization through her affective engagements with language and objects. Her lack of adaptation to internal migration reconfigures traditional representations of early twentieth-century Italian immigration in Argentina within an affective framework. |
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