«Healing is Like Falling in Love, but Deeper»: romance e intertextualidad en «The Stars and the Blackness Between Them» de Junauda Petrus
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Este artículo analiza The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (2020) de Junauda Petrus –su debut literario sobre la historia de amor de dos chicas negras de orígenes distintos– a la luz de The Fault in Our Stars (2012) de John Green. Tras introducir brevemente el subgénero de la novela queer para jóvenes lectores, el artículo explora desde la perspectiva de los estudios sobre la novela romántica popular cómo la presencia de la enfermedad terminal de la protagonista afecta a la construcción del amor adolescente. En la primera parte, el artículo se centra en arrojar luz sobre las cuestiones discursivas que comparten las novelas de Petrus y Green, centrándose en la noción de lo infinito dentro de lo finito que se deriva del momento de reconocimiento. La segunda parte del artículo explora la intertextualidad, un aspecto formal clave en ambas novelas y mediante el cual Green y Petrus se acercan al género de manera distinta –en términos de lo simbólico y lo semiótico respectivamente– para resolver los destinos de sus personajes.
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