Abstract
Rejected by the publisher when originally written, the short story ‘Fiestita con animación’, by Ana María Shua provides an allegory of the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), relating Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival or carnivalesque with the legal concept known as the state of exception, as developed by Giorgio Agamben. Specifically, the text offers a subtle representation of enforced disappearance (‘desaparición forzada’) to be interpreted in line with Agamben’s readings on the homo sacer (the sacred man). Consequently, carnival and the state of siege - namely, martial law - are equivalent as a temporary stop on rights or on the law.
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