“No vengas al país de los ríos”: la escritura de Inés Arredondo y la estética de la oscuridad
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2014-03
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria.
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El propósito de este artículo es hacer una lectura de cinco cuentos de la narradora mexicana Inés Arredondo desde el enfoque de la literatura gótica como una estética constante a lo largo de su producción. “La sunamita”, “Apunte gótico”, “Río subterráneo”, “Las mariposas nocturnas” y “Sombra entre sombras” son textos donde se observan las siguientes temáticas: la mirada y su vínculo con la dinámica de las relaciones de poder; lo ritualístico, lo animal e instintivo como parte de la condición humana; la sexualidad vinculada con la violencia; y las relaciones triangulares, en particular, aquellas que transgreden normas establecidas de género, edad o preferencia sexual. En la mayor parte de los textos, el río funciona como símbolo de la corriente oscura que fluye por debajo de un mundo de apariencias normativizadas, una fuerza que arrastra, de manera trágica, a los personajes. El horror, en la escritura de Arredondo, no tiene un origen sobrenatural, sino que proviene de lo humano, lo estremecedoramente humano,y está narrado con un lenguaje en el que conviven lo exquisito con lo siniestro, en complicidad.
This article proposes a reading a reading of five short-stories by Mexican writer Inés Arredondo from the perspective of Gothic literature as a dominant aesthetic all along her literary carreer. “La sunamita”, “Apunte gótico”, “Río subterráneo”, “Las mariposas nocturnas” and “Sombra entre sombras” are all works characterized by the following thematics: the gaze and its importance in relation to power dynamics; ritual, the animalistic and instinct as part of the human condition; sexuality as a locus for violence; triangular relationships, in particular, those which transgress norms of gender, age or sexual preference. In most texts the river is a symbol of the dark current that runs hidden under the smooth surface of “the normal”, a force that drags characters along, in a tragic fashion. In Arredondo’s writings, horror is not ofsupernatural but of (all too) human origin, and it is narrated in a prose where the exquisite and the uncanny meet in shuddering complicity.
This article proposes a reading a reading of five short-stories by Mexican writer Inés Arredondo from the perspective of Gothic literature as a dominant aesthetic all along her literary carreer. “La sunamita”, “Apunte gótico”, “Río subterráneo”, “Las mariposas nocturnas” and “Sombra entre sombras” are all works characterized by the following thematics: the gaze and its importance in relation to power dynamics; ritual, the animalistic and instinct as part of the human condition; sexuality as a locus for violence; triangular relationships, in particular, those which transgress norms of gender, age or sexual preference. In most texts the river is a symbol of the dark current that runs hidden under the smooth surface of “the normal”, a force that drags characters along, in a tragic fashion. In Arredondo’s writings, horror is not ofsupernatural but of (all too) human origin, and it is narrated in a prose where the exquisite and the uncanny meet in shuddering complicity.
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Arredondo, Gótico, Narrativa mexicana, Terror, Siniestro, Gothic, Mexican literature