The Social Spaces in Mutation: Sex, Violence and Autism in Albertina Carri’s La rabia (2008)Footnote^*

* I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers at the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies for their remarks on the first draft of this article. This essay was submitted for review in July of 2014. Much of that submission appears in the present essay. At the time of my revisions in November of 2014, I received Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014), a collection of 12 essays, and reviewed it for the Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos. The collection contains two insightful articles by Alejandra Josiowicz and Sophie Dufays on Alberina Carri’s films in general and La rabia in particular. The articles address several themes, which my essay had engaged as well, especially in regard to autism, violence and children’s agency. I have made note of these, when appropriate, throughout this final version, while also going a step further by underscoring the link between gender violence and the autistic subjectivity’s intricate – and vengeful – involvement in mutations of social spaces.

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