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- Title
Monstruos (in)visibles y naturalezas (in)humanas: Distancia de rescate (2014) de Samanta Schweblin.
- Authors
Alonso Mira, Elena
- Abstract
Monsters can be understood from two non-exclusive points of view: otherness and ignorance, connected by one common feeling: fear. Due to a combination of factors such as the lively imagination of the explorers, the fierce resistance of the indigenous populations or the inaccessibility of certain territories, amazons, cannibals, zombies and many other monsters became the regional symbols of the once unknown territory (Jaúregui, 2008; Braham, 2015). At the beginning of the 20th century, the "novelas de la tierra", such as La vorágine (1924) o Doña Bárbara (1929) depicted nature as the terrifying, indomitable and implacable monster, guilty of dehumanizing whoever lived within. Nowadays, great areas of that same nature have been humanised and civilised, however, the silent monoculture fields have not lost their ability to frighten. The contemporary monster, an invisible monster who "eats away at the body and the body politic" and who can only be exposed through their symptoms, hides behind them (Weinstock, 2013). This article analyses the different representations of this contemporary monsters through the novel Fever Dream (2014) by Samanta Schweblin.
- Subjects
INDIGENOUS peoples; ZOMBIES; TWENTIETH century; MONSTERS; DEHUMANIZATION
- Publication
Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 2022, Vol 51, p211
- ISSN
0210-4547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/alhi.85135