Onde vivem os monstros: o espaço da alteridade na narrativa fantástica contemporânea

Abstract

Considerations on the space reserved in Science Fiction and Magic Realism to otherness and to those ones who do not follow specific behaviors and models ruled by institutions of power in contemporaneity. Historical view of Science Fiction in the U.S.A. and of Magic Realism in Latin America and, specifically, in Brazil. Survey of the literary space in fantastic narratives. Configuration of the space reserved to otherness in contemporary fantastic narratives. Analysis of José J. Veiga‘s and Ray Bradbury‘s works, related to critical texts of the themes: otherness, fantastic, space. Space as refuge of otherness and as opposition to rationalism.