The article deals with the fantastic short-story as it appears in Brazilian Regionalism, attempting at an explanation of this little studied phenomenon. It argues that the Regional fantastic, a mode in-between the uncanny and the marvelous, may correspond to an ambiguous feeling of an intellectual torn between an imposed urban modernity and the archaic mind of most of the country.
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