global-journal-of-human-social-science-c-sociology-culture Global Journal of Human-Social Science - C: Sociology & Culture 0975-587X 2249-460X Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 114531 From Waste to Living Symbols: Bodies and Early Deaths in Two Short Stories and Two 21st-Century Argentine Novels Reincarnation and Poverty in Social Criticism SosaPablo Javier ARGENTINA, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca 02 09 2025 25 C2 1 7

This article briefly examines the process through which the notion of the body as waste is aesthetically transformed into a symbol. To this end, it examines a corpus of literary texts within the broad field of contemporary Argentine narrative, linked by their thematization of early death. Based on the methodological principles of contrastive comparative literature, the article explores the centrality of the body, its representations, and functions in artistic expressions, which encapsulate and transmit worldviews in each community and era in which they emerge.

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This article briefly examines the process through which the notion of the body as waste is aesthetically transformed into a symbol. To this end, it examines a corpus of literary texts within the broad field of contemporary Argentine narrative, linked by their thematization of early death. Based on the methodological principles of contrastive comparative literature, the article explores the centrality of the body, its representations, and functions in artistic expressions, which encapsulate and transmit worldviews in each community and era in which they emerge.