Peruvian literature beyond the border: the double absence in Daniel Alarcón and Gunter Silva Passuni's stories
Keywords:
Peruvian contemporary literature, migrant literature, double absence, "transmigraphic experience", conflicting heterogeneity.
Abstract
The present work aims to include the works Crónicas de Londres (2012) by Gunter Silva Passuni and War by Candlelight: Stories (2005) by Daniel Alarcón in the Latin American migrant literature paradigm. The two Peruvian authors writes from Anglo-Saxon lands focusing on the complexity of the migrant subject in his double epistemic condition, emigrate and immigrate, related to the “double absence” theorized by Sayad and materialized in the texts through an intricate system of false presences and irreparable absences. Thanks to the set of symbolic and narrative strategies used by the authors, the bicultural literary experience becomes the only possibility for ubiquity and for a cultural reset of a subject in transit, in the border.Downloads
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Published
2014-11-12
How to Cite
Cairati E. (2014). Peruvian literature beyond the border: the double absence in Daniel Alarcón and Gunter Silva Passuni’s stories. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 43(Especial), 115-127. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2014.v43.47171
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