The strategic territory of the banana’s transnationals companies in Guatemala through the banana’s triology of Miguel Ángel Asturias

Abstract

Through the analysis of the narrative work of the great Guatemalan writer, Miguel Angel Asturias, I’m intending to establish the greats keys of the penetration and dominiom imperalistics politics of the north america’s multinationals banana’s companies at the beginning of the XX Century, at the Atlantic’s evenness first, and then the Pacific’s ones like Honduras and Costa Rica, and also other countries in Latin America, like Colombia. I pretend to analize, through the sign system representation, which is the novelistic space and the collective memory of the common people, who’s echo’ writer has proclaim, spout the answers small and middling owners and local farmers, and particularly de big strikes of the farmer hand’s’ plantations of the United Fruit Company. The complete problematical analysis, and the history (northamerican colonialism) is carry out through the Miguel Angel Asturias’s work, especially his bananera’ triology, that start with Viento Fuerte, published at 1950, then the El Papa Verde in 1954 and Los ojos de los enterrados, edited in 1960. The same Miguel Angel Asturias affirmed that the «novel is the only way that I have to make know the whole world the necessities and aspirations of my country».