Nature as a Haunted House: Ecology at the Service of Terror in Mariana Enriquez and Luciano Lamberti

Mariana Enriquez and Luciano Lamberti take advantage of the widespread ecological sensitivity of our time to provide new disruptive devices to introduce supernatural terror into their stories. They transform the haunted house into natural spaces, which maintain the same characteristics and reactions...

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Autor: Ferrari, Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/29271
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/29271
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Literatura latinoamericana
Terror gótico
Ecocrítica
Casa encantada
Latin American literature
Gothic horror
Ecocriticism
Haunted house
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Sumario:Mariana Enriquez and Luciano Lamberti take advantage of the widespread ecological sensitivity of our time to provide new disruptive devices to introduce supernatural terror into their stories. They transform the haunted house into natural spaces, which maintain the same characteristics and reactions as the former, but are more in tune with the reader’s concerns. A nature that is hostile because it has been previously mistreated (such as a polluted stream or an abandoned and dirty forest), functions as a haunted house and as a monster. It is a symbolic expression of the taboo upon which an economic development that has ignored so many victims has settled.