ABSTRACT
The Argentine narrative of the last decades presents very diverse aesthetic and poetic proposals, which dialogue with traditions and incorporate new perceptions and debates. The configuration of spaces, in relation to the idea of community, constitutes a powerful axis in the wide corpus of literary production since the year 2000. From this theme, it is possible to approach lines of analysis that establish productive links of study, in relation to the historical and social context: urban space in opposition to other spaces in fiction, ideas of community, violence, among others. In this framework, the relationships between the construction of spaces, affects and the idea of community trace the coordinates of a map where violence emerges in relation to social, historical and political conditions. This chapter deals with a corpus of three novels by Argentine authors: Bajo este sol tremendo, by Carlos Busqued (2009); Bien de frontera, by Oliverio Coelho (2015) and Desmonte, by Gabriela Massuh (2019). Furthermore, this chapter is based on a theoretical framework composed of the concept of chronotopies of affects by Leonor Arfuch (2016), the theoretical-methodological proposals of Josefina Ludmer in relation to time and space (2020), and the concept of homo sacer by Giorgio Agamben (2017), among others.
