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<journal-id>2448-6019</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Connotas. Revista de crítica y teoría literarias]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-6019</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Sonora, Departamento de Letras y Lingüística]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-60192022000200006</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36798/critlit.v0i25.410</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Tan lejos de dios: La función social de lo fantástico en la narrativa del norte de México]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[So far from God: The social function of the fantastic in northern Mexican narrative]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Nájera Ramírez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Karla Gabriela]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Martínez Vela]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marlon]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<numero>25</numero>
<fpage>6</fpage>
<lpage>34</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-60192022000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-60192022000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-60192022000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En este artículo se identifica un tratamiento particular en la cuentística fantástica del norte de México. Dicha especificidad en la producción del género se corresponde con la explicación de Tzvetan Todorov en Introduction à la littérature fantastique acerca de la función social de lo fantástico que subyace en un nivel más profundo al que se percibe de manera superficial. Para ello, se hace el análisis de cuentos pertenecientes a distintas generaciones de autores de esta gran región: &#8220;Un cúmulo de preocupaciones que se transforma&#8221; de Daniel Sada, &#8220;Traveler Hotel&#8221; y &#8220;Los últimos&#8221; de Eduardo Antonio Parra, &#8220;El conciliábulo de los halcones&#8221; y &#8220;Las ratas de la calle Babícora&#8221; de Elpidia García, &#8220;Ven por chile y sal&#8221; de Gabriela Riveros, y &#8220;Llamada perdida&#8221; de Néstor Robles. En este breve corpus se deja leer una serie de problemáticas que atañen a esta parte de México y que a través de la literatura se busca poner en evidencia.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: This paper identifies a particular treatment in fantastic short story tradition of northern Mexico. Its features correspond to those explained in Tzvetan Todorov&#8217;s The fantastic: a structural approach to a literary genre about the social function of the fantastic, which underlies at a deeper level than what is superficially perceived. To this end, this paper analyzes short stories that belong to different generations of writers from the mentioned region: Daniel Sada&#8217;s &#8220;Un cúmulo de preocupaciones que se transforma&#8221;; Eduardo Antonio Parra&#8217;s &#8220;Traveler Hotel&#8221; and &#8220;Los últimos&#8221;; Elpidia García&#8217;s &#8220;El conciliábulo de los halcones&#8221; and &#8220;Las ratas de la calle Babícora&#8221;; Gabriela Riveros&#8217;s &#8220;Ven por chile y sal&#8221;, and Néstor Robles&#8217;s &#8220;Llamada perdida&#8221;. This brief corpus reveals a series of difficulties that affect this part of Mexico that this literature seeks to highlight.]]></p></abstract>
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