Presentación: El monstruo en las estéticas actuales de lo insólito

  1. Álvarez Méndez, Natalia 1
  2. Eudave, Cecilia 2
  1. 1 Universidad de León
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    Universidad de León

    León, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02tzt0b78

  2. 2 Universidad de Guadalajara
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    Universidad de Guadalajara

    Guadalajara, México

    ROR https://ror.org/043xj7k26

Revue:
América Sin Nombre
  1. Álvarez Méndez, Natalia (coord.)
  2. Eudave, Cecilia (coord.)

ISSN: 1577-3442 1989-9831

Année de publication: 2022

Titre de la publication: El monstruo en las estéticas actuales de lo insólito

Número: 26

Pages: 9-14

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: América Sin Nombre

Résumé

This issue of América sin nombre plans to explore some of the components turned into essential resources and lines of strength in the construction of the impossible monster in several modalities of non-mimetic Latin American narratives in the last decades (1980-2021). To that end, we consider that it is fruitful to combine panoramic, historic and comparative perspectives with individual analysis of the work of writers from diverse generations that, in the last forty years, have approached the figure of the monster from literary aesthetics which are external to realism. Specifically, we centre our attention on the meaning of various thematic, structural, cognitive and/or representative elements which go through monstrosity in the narrative of Chile, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, and Ecuador. The studies developed in the present monograph allow to confirm the subversive and ideological capacity of the unusual monster in the recent Latin American narrative and the critical reading this monster emphasises.