Abstract

CUEVAS VELASCO, Norma Angélica. Central American narrative: border, violence and exile. Notes for a chronicle of corruption. Valenciana [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.20, pp.87-112. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i20.292.

Central America has been a fertile ground for the consolidation of a literature linked to conflicts of identity that frame a number of other social and political problems. Despite the fact of being part of a region that bears a similarity in the natural and anthropological wealth, it is clear that there is a collective effort to point out the ideological and cultural differences between the various political territories that divide the region. The article to expose how these cleavages are built as discursive boundaries that keep in line the fraternity and go in depth the gaps that are form between the border areas of these nations as related by factors beyond the geographical coincidence. All fictions submitted to reading concentrate a plot in which the characters are settled in two kinds of boundaries, in the metaphor of the split lies between the illusory differences emerging between beings of different skin color, nationality or social status.

Keywords : Border; Similarity; Difference; Violence; Corruption.

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