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Journey to Luisa Valenzuela's land of fear.
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World Literature Today
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September 22, 1995
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A critical reading looks at the allegory of fear that serves as themes and leitmotiv in Luisa Valenzuela's works. Several of her short stories are analyzed to reveal how she objectified and subjectified fear and its sources. For Valenzuela, memory is a means of overcoming fear and for memory to last, it must be written. Paradoxically, fear is necessary in reconstructing as well as in writing about the past.
Child psychiatrists utilize a test called the Land of Fear," developed on a principle using short phrases and drawings, which allows them to measure anxiety in children. The test is arranged into four categories: aggression, insecurity, abandonment, and death. The symbols that ...
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