Trangessions of reality: approaches to the modern chilean terror short story (1950-1960)

Authors

  • Jesús Fernando Diamantino Valdés Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2019323476

Keywords:

Terror aesthetics, transgression, fantastic terror, Chilean narrative

Abstract

This article intends to adress a theoretical reflection on terror aesthetics in literary fiction. A clasification will be presented considering three categories: body transgression, chronotopic transgression and social parameters transgression. This analytical-theoretical proposal aims to delimitate the mechanisms that embody the fictional terror so as to separate it from the fantastic genre. We will probe these precepts through the revision of five short stories from Chilean writers who lived during the first half of XXth century: Francisco Coloane, Luis Alberto Heiremans and Braulio Arenas. This period is relevant since it legitimates the development of the fantastic and the terror as autonomous lines in Chilean narrative.   

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Published

2019-07-06

How to Cite

Diamantino Valdés, J. F. (2019). Trangessions of reality: approaches to the modern chilean terror short story (1950-1960). Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (32), 17–28. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2019323476

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Received 2019-04-11
Accepted 2019-06-22
Published 2019-07-06