The Return to the Haunted Forests: Infancy and Monstrosity in the Fictions of the South

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María José Punte

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This article deals with three novels from the Southern Cone’s recent production. All of them have in common the recreation of a universe originally shaped in traditional fairy tales. It is remarkable in very case that said approximation is characterized by highlighting ominous aspects of infancy, by configuring a gaze that approaches that universe from the perspective of monstrosity.

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