Cultural Narratives on Caregiving: Film and Literature in Latin America

Domestic and care work, historically invisible and feminized in social terms, has found a space for symbolic representation, reinterpretation, and social criticism in Latin American cinema and literature.This paper proposes a comparative analysis of cultural narratives that address care in its different forms of expression (domestic, community, professional, and transnational), through film and literary productions from countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile.Using narrative and sociocritical analysis tools, it analyzes how plots, characters, and contexts portray relationships of subordination, power, gender inequalities, and the tension between the private and public spheres within the context of care and domestic work.Therefore, the study seeks to identify patterns and ruptures in these socio-representations, reflecting on their impact as a factor of social construction.In this sense, it concludes that narratives permeate public sensibility, and therefore, art and literature reflect realities, acting as catalysts for cultural change and political dynamics around the recognition and dignification of direct and indirect care in Latin America.