Where the uncanny meets horrorism: a unique sicario’s account of bodies in disunion in Laura Restrepo’s “Pelo de elefante”

• J. Andrea Carrillo ^[1]
  1. [1] Indiana University-Bloomington
• Localización: Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, ISSN 0145-8973, Vol. 51, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 187-206
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This is where the uncanny meets horrorism. Therefore, I argue that horrorism and the type of fear it espouses sheds light on the uncanny because it converges with the theme of bodies in disunion, fusing a conception of extreme violence and fear with a supernaturally inflected conception of fear. I note and draw upon the material and emotional aspects of the uncanny and horrorism to arrive at this argument. In what follows I show the convergence of the two concepts through my textual analysis of Laura Restrepo’s short story, “Pelo de elefante,” situating it within the larger tradition of the sicaresca genre in Colombian Literature.1

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