Presentation of the Dossier “Metamorphosis, Animality, and «Unnatural» Voices in Spanish Language Short Fiction”
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https://doi.org/10.24029/lejana.2026.19.12502Keywords:
metamorphosis, animality, unnatural narratives, short fiction, Argentinean literatureAbstract
The 19th issue of Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve has proposed inviting the academic community to debate and reflect on several possible axes of study of short fiction written in Spanish, including the functions of metamorphosis, as well as the forms, styles, and procedures that these transformations take in literary works. Although this topic has received much critical attention, it has not been widely developed in terms of representations of animals and alongside devices and procedures referred to as “unnatural.” Hence, the objectives of the dossier “Metamorphosis, Animality, and «Unnatural» Voices in Spanish Language Short Fiction” have been, on the one hand, to generate theoretical and critical reflections on the proposed topic and, on the other, to carry out studies on short fiction (from microtextualities to short novels) in which metamorphosis and the animal appear. This text contains an introduction to the topic, as well as a presentation of the nine research articles that make up the dossier.
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