ANOMALOUS BODIES AND INHABITABLE HOUSES
MONSTRUOSITY IN THREE SHORT STORIES BY MARÍA FERNANDA AMPUERO
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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v15i31.612Abstract
This article analyzes the use of categories such as the monstrous and the domestic in the short stories of the Ecuadorian María Fernanda Ampuero. The interpretation of these stories parts from the literary genre of horror and make emphasis on the use of Gothic motifs to indicate how this appropriation serves to dramatize the position of Latin American women in the face of various structural violence, which intensifies in population segments especially vulnerable. As we are the Gothic from a feminist critical perspective, the physical and symbolic confinement spaces will comprise from the haunted castle in the classical tradition to the female body as the last space of resistance in the Latin American context. In this captivities the monstrous represents both the force that retracts the female subject as its possibility of transgression.
KEY WORDS: Monster, home, domestic, female captivity.
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