Published 2023-12-23
Keywords
- Avant-garde,
- Leonora Carrington,
- Geocriticism,
- New Materialism,
- Surrealism
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Abstract
This article analyzes Leonora Carrington’s Down Below from a dual perspective. First, we aim to provide an interpretative framework to contextualize Carrington’s literary production within the Surrealist avant-garde. Then, we examine the literary geographies of Carrington’s writing, offering a parallel reading of Down Below with The Hearing Trumpet, focusing on the interconnection between physical space and the body – a geography made of flesh, which can be analyzed according to the hermeneutical lines of neo-materialism.