*CFP* "THE FANTASTIC WORK OF AMPARO DÁVILA", SPECIA ISSUE, BRUMAL: RESEARCH JOURNAL ON THE FANTASTIC

The call for papers for articles for the sections “Monograph” and “Miscellaneous” for the Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic is now open. Scholars who wish to contribute to either of these two sections should send us their articles registering as authors on our web page. The Guidelines for Submissions may be found on the Submissions section of the web page.

Special Issue: "The Fantastic Work of Amparo Dávila" (coord. Teresa López-Pellisa and David Roas)

This special issue pays tribute to the Mexican writer Amparo Dávila (1928-2020), one of the great masters of the fantastic in the Spanish language. Author of essential short story volumes, such as Tiempo destrozado (1959) and Música concreta (1964), her work shows clear influences from Poe and Cortázar,with whom she also held a close friendship. Furthermore, the recurrent use of enclosed, gloomy and oppressive domestic spaces reveals the importance of  Gothic literature for her literary production. These spaces serve –as Cecilia Eudave already noted - to reinforce the horror, not for the unknown but for the real thing that is perceived as a threat. Her stories, usually starring women, focus on the daily, routine and banal life of characters who suddenly see their lives altered by the appearance of animals, disturbing beings (as for example in one of her best stories: “El huésped”) or impossible phenomena, through which the author reflects on fear, madness, death or identity with the desire to claim the feminine as a fighting mechanism to gain visibility.

Among the various thematic lines that can be addressed in the study of the fantastic work of Amparo Dávila, we propose the following:

• Feminisms, ideology and the fantastic 
• Narrative spaces 
• The monster 
• Forms of horror 
• The work of Amparo Dávila and Ecocriticism 
• Canon theory and narratives of the fantastic written by women in Latin America

 

Brumal will only consider works of a fantastic nature as defined by the journal, hereby only accepting papers on other non-mimetic genres such as the marvellous or science fiction if and when they are related to fantastic narrative.

 

Deadline: December 15, 2020

 

Miscellaneous Section

This Miscellaneous section is open all year to receive any type of article on any of the diverse artistic manifestations of the fantastic (narrative, theater, film, comics, painting, photography, video games), whether theoretical, critical, historical or comparative in nature, concerning the fantastic in any language or from any country, from the nineteenth century to the present.