Unraveling the Real: The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones

Index

body, human, 43, 50, 123–25, 153, 154, 157, 160, 165–67, 170, 174, 176–78, 181, 185, 208, 210–11, 216, 231–32, 235, 245n4 Bombal, María Luisa, 9, 10, 17, 39, 154–57, 168–78, 238n5 Boom, in Latin American literature, 11, 18, 36, 38, 79, 100, 238–39n7 Booth, Wayne, 78, 239n9 Borges, Jorge Luis, 2, 6, 8–11, 13, 17–18, 23, 24, 39, 46, 47, 50, 56, 74, 78–92, 125–30, 238, 239, 240, 242n3, 243n5 “buena compañia, La,” 233 Buenos Aires, 12, 14, 42, 51, 107, 126, 144, 214, 240n3 Caillois, Roger, 7, 9, 12–14, 23, 32, 202, 238n5 “Calixta Brand,” 230–31 Carpentier, Alejo, 24, 34–35, 36, 38, 238n2 “casa de azúcar, La,” 132–43, 146, 151 “Casa tomada,” 132–35, 145–50 “caso del la señorita Amelia, El,” 50–55, 58 Castillo, Debra A., 72–73 “Chac Mool,” 120–126, 226, 244n4 Chanady, Amaryll, 36–37 children, 62, 64, 148, 193–98, 213, 217, 219, 221–22 Chodorow, Nancy, 177 chronological time, 14, 100, 106–7, 113, 130, 185, 235 absurd, treatment in literature, 3, 12, 35, 63, 91, 115, 137, 234 Alegría, Fernando, 35–36 “almohadón de plumas, El,” 65–68, 72 “amante del teatro, El,” 228 ambiguity, 18, 29, 41, 44, 59, 73–74, 76, 83, 88, 108, 176, 181, 186, 205, 212, 227–28 Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 24, 35–36 Antología de la literatura fantástica, 8, 12, 16, 238, 243n5 Arau, Alfonso, 204 artist, fictional characters as, 183–87 Asturias, Miguel Angel, 35–36, 38, 238n2 Aura, 154–66, 168, 171, 173, 176, 178, 226, 232, 246n3 authority, 2, 41, 43–44, 52–54, 60, 67, 73, 75, 79–80, 83, 88, 90–91, 135, 150–51, 156, 168, 171–72, 174, 180–81, 183, 190, 192–95, 198–201, 223 Aztecs, 99, 109–14 117–19 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 81 Barrenechea, Ana María, 24–25, 29, 45, 225–26, Barthes, Roland, 2, 15, 91–92 Beleván, Harry, 24–16, 29, 45 “bella durmiente, La,” 231–33 Berger, John, 181 Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 8–13, 24, 27, 39, 45, 88–89, 132, 139–42, 145, 243n5 Index 262 / index fantasy, 3–4, 20, 22–23, 28, 34, 44, 57, 64, 89, 97, 116, 121, 122, 144, 177, 193, 196, 197, 202–3, 212, 237, 243n4 fear, treatment of, 10,13, 15, 19, 27, 30, 31, 34, 37, 40, 43, 54, 57, 65, 69–70. 77, 112, 114, 119, 121–22, 138, 152, 153, 157, 164, 166, 177, 182, 190, 205, 211, 228, 233, 235, 237, 246n1 female agency, 155, 166, 175, 178, 246n3 female gothic, 43, 153–56, 175–78 feminist readings, 153–54, 179–80, 193, 201, 244n1 “fiesta brava, La,” 79, 98–104 film, characters, 71–72, 207–15 Flores, Angel, 35, 36, 238 Foucault, Michel, 179–80 Franco, Jean, 105–6 Freudian theory, 22, 147, 237, 245n2 Fuentes, Carlos, 2, 6, 11, 12, 17, 23, 24, 39, 46, 103, 120–25, 154–56, 176, 226–35, 244n4 future, foretelling the, 112, 118, 141, 177, 185–86, 206, 208, 213, 221, 243n5 García Canclini, Néstor, 72 “gata de mi madre, La,” 229–30 gaze, 94, 142, 146, 149, 162, 179, 181, 184, 189, 190, 201, 220–21 genre, the fantastic as a, 2–4, 6–9, 11, 15, 17–26, 28–30, 32–33, 35–36, 38, 41, 45–49, 65, 74, 77–78, 80–82, 92, 153, 201–4, 206, 225–26, 238n3 ghosts, 10, 16, 31, 72, 86, 193, 205, 227, 228, 230, 233 globalization, 46, 227, 230–32 “goce y la penitencia, El,” 181–82, 186–92 God, 53, 55–58, 72, 86–87 gothic horror, 3, 16, 65, 122, 154, 160, 176, see also female gothic. Greuner, Daniel, 205 grotesque, 3, 66, 237n1 Hahn, Oscar, 24, 32, 240n2 hesitation, in the fantastic, 19–21, 26, 29, 31, 34, 37–38, 44, 53–54, 57, 60, 64, 67, 77, 83, 92, 108, 114, 116, 120, 122–24, 127, 158–59, 168, 171, 187–91, 202, 207, 214, 226, 233–34 history, literary treatments of, 105–130 Hombre mirando al sudeste, 206, 215–19 humor, 196–198, 223, 243n6 cinematic fantastic, 44, 202–6 ciudad letrada, la, 50, 73, 241 civilización y barbarie, theme of, 125–27 colonialism, 229 “Continuidad de los parques,” 79, 90, 92–98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 243n7 Cortázar, Julio, 2, 6, 11, 12, 17...