Neogótico Latinoamericano: Lo siniestro en dos cuentos de María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, 1974) y lo raro en “Avidez” de Lina Meruane (Santiago, 1970)

Abstract

This article reviews two works by the narrators María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, 1974) and Lina Meruane (Santiago, 1970), who use strategies of the gothic mode in the construction of their creations, where the weird and the sinister are presented as aesthetic resources that update the concept of the monstrous. The first part of the research will address the Freudian idea of the sinister and Mark Fisher's approaches to the weird, to then account for how these concepts represent the horror and violence of the neoliberal and globalized world we inhabit, where the monstrous is permanently resignified.