The Border, the Recurring “Non-place” in Recent Mexican Literature. A Brief Journey from the Margins

 

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Autor: Castillo-Carrillo , Gerardo
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2024
Descripción:This article focuses on the analysis of some contemporary Mexican literary works, in which the southern or northern geographical border of Mexico is represented as a counterhegemonic, violent, and geopolitically vulnerable space. For this purpose, the novels 2666 (2004), by Roberto Bolaño To the other side (2008), by Heriberto Yépez; The Scorched Lands (2015), by Emiliano Monge, and the testimonial collection of poems The Central American Book of the Dead (2018), by Balam Rodrigo will be reviewed in particular. In these texts, the border is configured as a territory of multiple sociocultural relations and economic transactions, in which particular values ​​and interests are conditioned by the laws of the market. In each of these texts, drug trafficking is present directly or indirectly, who controls, manages, or eliminates everything that seems useless.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/60976
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/60976
Palabra clave:border
heterotopia
periphery
migration
violence
frontera
heterotopía
periferia
migración
violencia
frontière
hétérotopie
périphérie