A ucronia transficcional: em busca de um subgênero oculto no fantástico contemporâneo

Abstract

This work intends to create a classification for certain literary works of fantasy and science fiction that bring together two common elements: ucronia or alternative history, and the use of crossover, or transfictionality. Starting from the study of the relations between literature and history, the possibilities of the historical novel and its negative, ucronia, and the creation of new fictional worlds from the archeology of preexisting elements of mythology and romance, we try to arrive at a common denominator for several works that appear in this peculiar form, including works that use other narrative forms, such as cinema and comic books. In order to do this, theoretical references are used, ranging from Aristotle's reflections on the relations between poetry and history and Alessandro Manzoni on the historical novel, through Niall Ferguson s defense of the counterfactual history against fiction, Hans Vaihinger s realization of the inevitability of fictions, and by the tools of narratology for the analysis of transmidia storytelling