Esbeidi Yaret Lara Reyes

Discolored Almond: the Monstrosity of the Difference in “Historia de Mariquita” by Guadalupe Dueñas

This work presents an analytical approach to the story “Historia de Mariquita” by the Mexican writer Guadalupe Dueñas, the aim is to demonstrate the monstrosity of the difference observed in it, starting from the traditional subversion of Judeo-Christian funerary rituals, concretely the burial. Furthermore, the concept of deautomatization,proposed by Russian Viktor Shklovski, is used to point out the elements Dueñas deautomates in her story, such as: the funeral ritual, the space and state in which the corpse is preserved, punishment, among others.