Fiction and hegemony: the political tension in 'La ciudad ausente'
Abstract
This work is aimed at the analysis La ciudad ausente (1992), by Ricardo Piglia, from the Marxist perspective that defined his years of intellectual formation. For this we remember key concepts of the Marxist and post-Marxist tradition, such as the theories of Louis Althusser or Walter Benjamin, as well as certain models of sociological analysis posed by post-structural authors. We will characterize Ricardo Piglia’s novels as a narrative space where multiple channels of discursive construction converge and where a struggle is being fought for the construction of a political hegemony: on the one hand, the power deploying its devices of social domination; on the other, writers expressing a resistance that serves to combat liberal hegemony.
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