Extraño Caso de Cuarentena: Epidemia de Cólera e Imaginación Gótica en «La Extraña Cabalgada de Morrowbie Jukes» de Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling, Orientalismo, gótico, enfermedad, cólera, cuarentenaResumen
Este artículo analiza cómo la imaginación gótica de Rudyard Kipling, mientras crea una Aldea de los Muertos que exuda asco y horror en «La Extraña Cabalgada de Morrowbie Jukes» (1885), también crea inadvertidamente un espacio de cuarentena influenciado por los discursos coloniales de finales del siglo XIX sobre la salud y la enfermedad, especialmente el del cólera. A medida que los debates en torno al miasma, las enfermedades tropicales y la cuarentena se arremolinaban en el largo siglo XIX, estas ansiedades médicas en Kipling produjeron un espacio de cuarentena que gira en torno a la noción de poder, gótico a través de un entorno de culto. A medida que el artículo intenta situar el cuento de Kipling dentro del discurso del orientalismo epidémico, encuentra que el discurso coincide con los intereses y tropos del gótico imperial, mezclando la epidemia de cólera, las supersticiones indias y la teoría de la degeneración para producir alteridad.
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