| For the human being, the repressive societies are spaces of identity delegitimation and tensions that force individuals to opt for transgressions, or for alternative levels of conscience and realities. The fantastic represents an alternate reality and also a subversive representation of identity.;The transformations of the form are replaced, in a subversive way, by the mutations which happens at the very essence of the signification of being. They lead to an identity redefinition process through corporality that rejects the ideological and normative speeches.;The body, in the texts examined in this thesis, as an imaginary space and site of inscription of spiritual, cultural and ideological structures of the society, rejects its predetermined position as a propaganda agent to become the support on which are inscribed the ontological displacement which mark the metamorphosis identity.;Maryse Conde, Mo Yan, Mircea Cartarescu and Angela Carter's characters express their inability to adapt to a totalitarian universe through recourse to animality as a liminal space. This functions as an interstice where identities explode and recompose according to a noncanonical logic replacing the speech by the body language.;In this context, the characters' metamorphosis is less a theriomorphic transfiguration than an ontological mutation. For a long time the fantastic has been studied under the influence of excessive showing. In this thesis I propose to posit fantastic metamorphosis as a showing process in absentia, from which the slippage towards the theriomorphic stage happens through lines of flight which mark the ontological becoming of the being.;Keywords. Romanian literature, Antillean literature, Chinese literature, post-communist literature, postcolonial literature, fantasy, feminist literature, postmodernism, body, becoming. |
