Slum Literature in Twenty-First Century Buenos Aires

Since the economic crisis of 2001, slums have taken on a new role, becoming central spaces for Argentine cultural production. This essay, conceived as a survey, aims to analyze how certain examples of twenty-first-century slum literature propose the possibility of a slum aesthetic that highlights the productivity of these spaces. This is not achieved through their romanticization as sites of lost purity or human solidarity, but rather through an exploration of their potential as territories from which to understand the contemporary urban condition and articulate a critical perspective on the city of Buenos Aires.