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Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica
versión impresa ISSN 2145-8987
Resumen
CASANOVA-VIZCAINO, Sandra. Alfonso Hernández Catá's Gothic China. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2013, vol.4, n.8, pp.56-70. ISSN 2145-8987.
This article analyzes two short stories by Cuban writer Alfonso Hernández Catá (1885-1940): "Los chinos" (1924) and "El gato" (1933). In these texts, Asian characters are described as grotesque and monstrous beings like the ones found in the Gothic genre. Moreover, this monstrosity is depicted as a contagious disease that threatens to infect and destabilize the boundaries between life and death, sanity and insanity, the familiar and the unknown, the West and the East.
Palabras clave : Alfonso Hernández Catá; monsters; Asian bodies; disease; Gothic genre.