Ciudades Colaterales: las Ciudades Narradas de la Frontera México-Estados Unidos en Novelas Recientes
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2020-06-16Autor
Sifuentes Rodríguez, Carlos Alberto
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The purpose of this study is to carry out a critical comparative study of the narrated cities of the
Mexico-US border in a corpus of recent urban novels. One of the central questions is the
formulation of a model based on the literary representation of events such as the implementation,
assimilation, and consolidation of global imagery in border cities. The collateral city model is
made up of a series of orders which we call urban panoramas. The panoramas we analyze
correspond to hypermasculinities, traumatic memory and transnational allegality. The first
panorama refers to the representation of the city in relation to narrative conflicts derived from the
masculine and feminine, focusing on practices that correspond to the model of hegemonic
masculinities. The second panorama deals with the representation of the dynamics between
memory and oblivion, an element that characterizes peripheral spaces. The last panorama
examines the conflicts that arise from the tensions between the legal and the illegal that are
reflected throughout the urban space. To approach the model in question, the following novels are
studied: Nostalgia de la sombra (2002), by Eduardo Antonio Parra; 2666 (2004), by Roberto
Bolaño; Al otro lado (2008), by Heriberto Yépez; and Indio borrado (2014), by Luis Felipe
Lomelí.