Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A photographer witnesses a family's surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend.

PB - Victoria (Tex.) : Dalkey archive pressĪU - Colanzi Serrate, Liliana (viaf)9235006ĪU - Sequeira, Jessica (viaf)268148996088259751837ĪB - The eye - Alfredito - The wave - Meteorite - Cannibal - Family portrait - Our dead world - Story with bird.ĪB - 'A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. Victoria (Tex.): Dalkey archive press, 2017. Chicago: Colanzi Serrate, Liliana, and Jessica Sequeira. : MLA: Colanzi Serrate, Liliana, and Jessica Sequeira. (source)fast (OCoLC)fst01026997įantasy fiction. Liliana Colanzi's stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America.'- Provided by publisher. 'A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother.

Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi