Routes and crossroads: chronotopes of the Latin American contemporary narrative

Abstract

The contemporary global social landscape has fostered the construction of new fictional spaces, which have destabilized the binary structures that were previously used to approach Latin American literature. Whereas in the past, literary analysis was based on a cultural dichotomy between the countryside and urban spaces, the local and the foreign, civilization and barbarism, today it is almost impossible to determine where the boundaries between the local and the global are, because the literary imaginary has increasingly acquired international dimensions, in search of new horizons. Through the analysis of recent narrative works by Guillermo Fadanelli, Andrés Neuman and Lina Meruane, this article studies how contemporary Latin American literature understands time and space.