Mariana Enriquez On Using Horror to Process Historical Trauma
Mariana Enr\xedquez is one of the best-known writers of a growing literary trend in Latin America that uses the horror genre to denounce the violent realities of the region\u2014past and present. Mariana was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, just a few years before a military junta took over the democratic government in Argentina, and grew up in a country under a brutal dictatorship. She retreated to books and writing to process that historical trauma.
\n\nIn this episode, Mariana shares how her connection with horror started, how she uses the genre to speak of her reality, and she reads from her latest novel Our Share of Night.