Open AccessDecadencia, deconstrucción y revigorización de la fauna fantástica. Caracterización del monstruo mitológico en la narrativa mexicana reciente.
Author(s) -
Juan Carlos Gallegos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sincronía
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1562-384X
DOI - 10.32870/sincronia.axxv.n80.19b21
Subject(s) - humanities , monster , deconstruction (building) , the imaginary , narrative , art , mythology , creatures , representation (politics) , literature , art history , history , archaeology , psychoanalysis , ecology , psychology , politics , political science , natural (archaeology) , law , biology
This article addresses the various ways in which the figure of the mythological monster is constructed in the recent short narrative by three authors: René Avilés Fabila, Cecilia Eudave, Fernando de León. The above is based on the original representation of these creatures in ancient and medieval bestiaries, and focuses, above all, on the core change in their characterization in current texts, which leads to scenarios of decadence, deconstruction or reinvigoration of the imaginary fauna, explained this as a result of the exhaustion of magical thinking before the scientific one.