La fiesta de los monstruos en La virgen cabeza y Yanara de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Thee Celebration of the Monsters in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's La Virgen Cabeza and Yanara

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to inquire into the celebration of the monster in contemporary Argentine literature, particularly in two texts written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: La Virgen Cabeza (2009) and Yanara (2018-2019). We are particularly interested in these writings because we find in them a form of monstrosity as a way of life in common. Monstrosity refers to precarious, ordinary subjects who embody a potential for struggle and resistance. These monsters inhabit urban areas that are also precarious, which can be considered as a space of capture, but which also allow for the generation of forms of self-organization. Life in common refers to the muddy, self-governance, and celebration. The muddy appears as a materiality associated with the low and the popular, and at the same time as a binding element that enables the union of bodies and ways of generating social, cultural and affective ties. The celebration is presented as a transgression of the established limits, through sexual pleasure, food, festivity, resistance, and struggle. The feast of monsters is the expansion of life in common and the possibility of creating an alternative community.

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