| Titre | Civilizar por el horror | |
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| Auteur | Diego Fernando Guerra | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 11, 2014 Monstres et monstruosités dans les représentations esthétiques et sociales | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thématique Monstres et monstruosités |
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| Résumé anglais |
Within the foundation of modern Argentina, the dialectic between « monstrous » and « normal » often worked as a metaphor of the civilization-barbarity confrontation. From 1870 decade the development of « hygienic » funerary practices like cremation was a central component of the sanitarian public policies and the emergence of social control devices. In that context, the exhibition of the dangers and horrors linked to the human corpse and its decomposition became a central topic of the cremationist rhetoric, which appealed to the imaginary of monstrous in order to create a public consciousness on the sanitary risks derived from funerary tradition of inhumation. This paper will focus on some aspects of this process, part of the historical transformations of the visual and its insertion on the XXth century mass culture, but also linked to the collective fears and taboos inspired by corpses, bacteria, worms and revenants within the cultural industry. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/5716 |
