The Postmodern Fantastic Monster: Between Anomaly and Domesticatio
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2019.01.002Keywords:
Monster, Fantastic, Postmodernity, Narration, Film, TV seriesAbstract
Postmodern fiction has continued to produce all kinds of impossible and disturbing monsters, but at the same time, there are many works (Twilight is a paradigmatic example) that trivialize and / or tame the monster, depriving it of its exceptionality. This provokes a curious phenomenon (that hides an inevitably conservative worldview): by attributing normality to the monster, this creature is incorporated into reality, making it a possible element of the world, and thus depriving it of its original impossible nature by placing it within the norm. The monster is stripped of its monstrosity. What the monster is also stripped of its fantastic dimension... The aim of this article is to reflect on the reasons that have triggered this process of domestication of the monster.
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