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[email protected]. Horror Without End: Narratives of Fear Under Modern Capitalism Andrés Emil González Senior Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature Advisors: Claire Solomon and Patrick O’Connor May 1st, 2018 1 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Chapter I: Conventionality, Allegory and a Politics of the Subaltern 8 Chapter II: The End of Language: Lessons in Narrative Healing from Argentina 22 Chapter III: Who Lives, Who Dies, and How? 34 Part 1: Working Families, Haunted Houses 34 Part 2: Dangerous Wealth and Dangerous Greed 41 Part 3: We Get Shit Done: Isolation, Recognition and the Life-Saving Monoracial Community 56 Chapter IV: Repetition, Reaction, Progress and Normalcy 66 Part 1: ‘Gratuitous’ Violence in the ‘Tiger Economies’ 66 Part 2: Repeating Histories and Unresolved Endings 74 Conclusion 81 Bibliography 82 2 To my parents, Aníbal and Priscilla 3 Introduction “The most important things are the hardest to say.” - Stephen King In the small New England town of Middlebury, Vermont, two teenage boys walked home from a party, as the hour neared midnight.