University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2012 Monstruos, Maniobras y Mundos: Lo Fantástico En La Narrativa Cubana, 1910-2010 Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaíno University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. Monstruos, Maniobras y Mundos: Lo Fantástico En La Narrativa Cubana, 1910-2010 Abstract This dissertation examines the Fantastic mode in Cuban narrative between 1910 and 2010. Each chapter explores the work of a different author to explore the ways in which the Fantastic manifests and evolves vis à vis other literary modes present in Cuban literature, such as Naturalism and the Marvellous Real. In chapter one, “‘El confesor de monstruos’: Alfonso Hernández Catá y el fantástico-gótico,” I suggest that in several of Hernández Catá’s short stories in Los frutos ácidos (1915), Piedras preciosas (1924), Manicomio (1931) and Cuatro libras de felicidad (1933), grotesque and monstrous bodies are the site of horror and terror. These deformed bodies act like an infectious disease that spreads and threatens the notions of control and hygiene put forth by the sciences starting at the end of the Nineteenth-century.