{"title":"Una violeta fantástica: “Viola acherontia”, de Leopoldo Lugones","authors":"Rafael Olea Franco","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.889","url":null,"abstract":"«Viola acherontia», de Leopoldo Lugones (Las fuerzas extrañas, 1906), es un cuento fantástico donde un elemento vegetal cumple una función medular, pues un narrador testigo relata su encuentro con un extraño jardinero que desea inventar una violeta mortífera. En el texto se percibe la influencia de Poe y Hawthorne. Del primero tomó Lugones al insecto conocido como «esfinge de la calavera» (Acherontia atropos), de larga presencia artística en Occidente; del segundo, la idea de una planta que exhala un veneno letal. Así, el argentino se sumó a una persistente tradición de la cultura occidental, a la cual aportó rasgos originales. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"16 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89923137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rosa María Díez Cobo (edición y prólogo), Arquitectura inquietantes. Antología de relatos de casas encantadas, Eolas Ediciones, León, 2022.","authors":"Claudia Cabrera Espinosa","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88346421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pervivencias del mito del vampiro enamorado. La resistencia feminista en A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night","authors":"Álvaro Martín Sanz","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.861","url":null,"abstract":"Girl Walks Home Alone at Night es el título de la primera película dirigida por la británica/iraní Ana Lily Amirpour. El film se ambienta en la ciudad ficticia de Bad City, un enclave que mezcla características persas con occidentales y en el que aparece una misteriosa mujer vampiro como irrupción de lo fantástico. El presente artículo realiza un análisis textual del film de cara a estudiar cómo la cineasta subvierte la tradición vampírica al plantear una figura monstruosa de corte existencialista que utiliza sus poderes con una clara connotación política feminista y que subvierte el mito para, lejos de ser seductora, terminar siendo seducida por el hombre. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"33 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72459471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez, Jorge Poveda Arias
{"title":"«The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid»: From Plant Science To Victorian Horror From a Multidisciplinary Approach","authors":"Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez, Jorge Poveda Arias","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.960","url":null,"abstract":"Plants are organisms whose great biological distance from humans has aroused cultural interest as powerful and/or dangerously unfamiliar creatures, especially during the Victorian period. «The Flowering of the Strange Orchid» (1894), by Herbert George Wells, tells how an orchid collector is attacked to near death by his latest acquisition. The plant attacks the human with its «tentacle-like aerial rootlets», like a vampire feeding on his blood. However, Winter-Wedderburn is saved by his housekeeper, and the plant dies instantly. The story is written at a historical moment of great fascination with orchids and carnivorous plants. Literarily, the story has numerous comparisons to great characters, such as Medusa and her tentacles, Dracula, Carmilla, and even IT. At the same time, it is a story with a strong plant science content, dealing with aspects such as the mechanisms used by orchids to obtain nutrients, their flowering, the importance of «hunting» for the survival of carnivorous plants or the biology of parasitic plants. In conclusion, Wells' story makes an important critique of the way man relates to nature using literary fiction and the cutting-edge plant science knowledge of his time. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91334517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invasiones vegetales: lo ecofantástico en tres relatos de autoras argentinas contemporáneas","authors":"Sara Barberán Abad","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.964","url":null,"abstract":"No cabe ya duda de que lo fantástico, lejos de ser una literatura escapista, puede servirse de sus propios motivos y mecanismos como género a la hora de abordar problemáticas que afectan a las sociedades contemporáneas. Es el caso de tres relatos, escritos por autoras argentinas contemporáneas: «La mancha» (2017), de Patricia Ratto, «Miedo al sauce» (2019), de Gabriela Colombo, y «Septiembre en la piel» (2019), de Yanina Rosenberg. Se propone aquí su lectura desde el concepto de lo ecofantástico, de modo que lo sobrenatural, que en estos cuentos pasa por la invasión de lo vegetal de los territorios de lo cotidiano humano, adquiere un claro sentido de denuncia ecologista. Además, en los cuentos tiene cabida la reflexión acerca de problemáticas de género, en torno a la vinculación tradicional de la mujer con los misterios y fuerzas de la naturaleza. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79211563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ecological Reading of Interspecies Mutation in Annihilation","authors":"Irene Sanz Alonso","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.911","url":null,"abstract":"Humans’ detachment from nature, as justified by an alleged exceptionalism falsely granted by our ability to reason, has resulted in the ecological crisis we face today. Besides, our fear and suspicion of wilderness has also prompted us to master the natural world on our terms. This article aims at exploring how Alex Garland’s film Annihilation (2018) discomforts the audience by challenging our assumptions about a nature that we believed already conquered. The analysis will focus on how the film portrays mutations that produce hybrid creatures mixing animal and plant DNA thus destabilizing the limits between human and non-human. This crossing of porous boundaries illustrates our vulnerability as species and our dependance on the ecosystem that surrounds us. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"361 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80247259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review","authors":"Umberto Rossi","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.1002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.1002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"24 11-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72452503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morir en árbol para matar al monstruo. Lo fantástico como resistencia a la violencia y el androcentrismo en La vegetariana de Han Kang.","authors":"Benamí Barros Barros García, Jimena Villazón Busta","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.968","url":null,"abstract":"En La vegetariana de Han Kang se presenta la perturbadora vida cotidiana de Yeonghye, una mujer anulada por la sociedad altamente patriarcal coreana, que abraza el vegetarianismo y lucha por transformarse en árbol para poder escapar de la violencia humana. En el presente artículo prestamos especial atención a los posibles sentidos que transmite y adquiere lo vegetal en oposición al carnismo y la humanidad sangrienta, así como a la construcción y arquitectura de lo fantástico y lo monstruoso. La obra se presenta como una novela de códigos realistas propios de lo fantástico, y se enmarca en la intersección de la literatura verde de horror con el ecologismo feminista. ","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73114452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lo vegetal y lo fantástico. Presentación","authors":"Cecilia Salmerón Tellechea","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.1026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.1026","url":null,"abstract":"Lo vegetal y lo fantástico. Presentación","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82386002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaw Brothers, Pu Songling y la eclosión del cine fantástico y de terror en Hong Kong","authors":"Pau Roig","doi":"10.5565/rev/brumal.880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.880","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo explora la consolidación del cine fantástico en la antigua colonia británica de Hong Kong —actualmente región administrativa especial de la República Popular China— en un período que abarca desde finales de la década de 1950 hasta principios de 1980. El texto analiza en un primer momento la influencia de las creencias religiosas y la literatura clásica, especialmente la obra de Pu Songling, en el cine fantástico de corte tradicional producido hasta mediados de la década de 1970. En este momento se abre camino un cine fantástico más virulento y permeable al cine fantástico occidental, focalizado en su mayor parte en la confrontación entre la magia negra y la magia blanca, que se alargará hasta mediados de la década de 1980. Shaw Brothers, una de las compañías más poderosas de Hong Kong hasta 1985, tuvo un papel determinante en todo este proceso y su influencia es palpable también en al auge posterior de las comedias fantásticas.","PeriodicalId":40661,"journal":{"name":"Brumal-Research Journal on the Fantastic","volume":"53 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91015572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}