Latino cross-border identity in the flash-fiction appeared in Azahares magazine

Abstract

Literature written in Spanish language in the United States by authors of Hispanic American origin has both a cultural and social interest, being the manifestation of the identity of a collective that has crossed national borders: people who write in a minority language that also does not correspond to any specific nationality (since they belong, originally, to many countries). The motif of the internal border is a constant in the analyzed micro-stories, all of them belonging to the magazine Azahares, published in Arkansas. In the present article we are going to synthesize the emergence of identity themes linked to the uprooting of the reality that they live: the family, the language, the cross of the border or the magic realism.