Abstract

GONZALEZ ROBLERO, Vladimir. Living the forest: The epic as a literary and historiographical discourse of migration and colonization of the Lacandona. Tzintzun [online]. 2013, n.58, pp.155-178. ISSN 0188-2872.

This article explores the process of migration and colonization of the Lacandona Jungle through the novel Hacía el confín, novela de la selva of Jesús Morales Bermúdez, and also from "El sueño de Carlos Hernández" chapter of the book Una tierra para sembrar sueños. Historia reciente de la Selva Lacandona, 1950-2000, de Jan de Vos. It analyzes the discursive construction, in narrative terms, of the historical process from its representation as epic.

Keywords : historiography; novel; epic; speech; narrative; Lacandona jungle.

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