The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic
The gothic genre in Latin American literature has been the object of fashionable interest in recent decades and seems to absorb all the elements of the politically correct agenda; however, in the current trend of absolute presentism that seems regular in the critics, it is not taken into account tha...
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| description | The gothic genre in Latin American literature has been the object of fashionable interest in recent decades and seems to absorb all the elements of the politically correct agenda; however, in the current trend of absolute presentism that seems regular in the critics, it is not taken into account that there exists a previous tradition more or less connected with its European sources but in search of its own cultural character. I would like to comment on some specifically gothic novels published in Argentina between the 1980s and the 1990s, as well as a recent one by the prolific writer César Aira. <i>Prins</i> can be analyzed as an ambiguous culmination of the gothic tendency, as well as a symptom of the disorientation of a genre that threatens to become a label as broad as it is empty. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93f46fd958c345079ecc3e673db3913c2023-11-17T12:13:29ZengMDPI AGLiterature2410-97892023-01-0131304110.3390/literature3010003The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the GothicJosé Mariano García0Centro de Estudios en Literatura Comparada María Teresa Maiorana, Departamento de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires c1107, ArgentinaThe gothic genre in Latin American literature has been the object of fashionable interest in recent decades and seems to absorb all the elements of the politically correct agenda; however, in the current trend of absolute presentism that seems regular in the critics, it is not taken into account that there exists a previous tradition more or less connected with its European sources but in search of its own cultural character. I would like to comment on some specifically gothic novels published in Argentina between the 1980s and the 1990s, as well as a recent one by the prolific writer César Aira. <i>Prins</i> can be analyzed as an ambiguous culmination of the gothic tendency, as well as a symptom of the disorientation of a genre that threatens to become a label as broad as it is empty.https://www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/3/1/3Latin American gothicCésar Airagothic genreallegorygenders |
| spellingShingle | José Mariano García The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic Literature Latin American gothic César Aira gothic genre allegory genders |
| title | The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic |
| title_full | The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic |
| title_fullStr | The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic |
| title_short | The Misfortunes of a Genre: <i>Prins</i> by César Aira as an Allegory of the Gothic |
| title_sort | misfortunes of a genre i prins i by cesar aira as an allegory of the gothic |
| topic | Latin American gothic César Aira gothic genre allegory genders |
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