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Patricia Poblete Alday
Within the current rise of the narrative, or journalistic-literary, chronicle, in our continent, Central American immigration to the United States stands out as one of its most striking and impacting themes. The hypothesis that guides this text -as well as the research that frames it- proposes that these chronicles of immigration become, narratively, a transduction of the gothic/classic horror story, while both reflect the horror of seeing how reason gives way to assault of irreconcilable, nocturnal and demonic forces. We understand this proposed continuity between the contemporary chronicle and the fantastic literature of terror not as a "substitution" of the former with respect to the latter, but rather as a current particularity of a genre or discursive mode that we have recognized as proteic, hybrid and interdisciplinary , always in tune with the sociohistorical conditions in which it is born and is received. In the following pages we will examine the forms of inclusion and transformation in these chronicles of one of the most characteristic archetypes of the horror narrative: the monster. In the Jungian line, we understand the archetype as "forms or images of a collective nature, which occur [...] as individual indigenous products of an unconscious origin" (Jung 85). We will review some of its most relevant textual manifestations in the current chronicle, focused from a prism that seeks to unite the individual ethic with the social pact
