Abstract

PERILLI, Carmen. Archive's metaphors in latin american narrative. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, suppl.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-3123.

I'm interested in cataloguing the ways Latin American narrative represents literary space and registers literature's changes of place. Two concepts are fundamental in this voyage: space and archive. A series of tropes allow exploring writers interpretive metaphors: the memory machine in Cien años de soledad, the memory theatre in Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra, the house in Carlos María Domínguez's La casa de papel, the radiostat in Juan Villoro's El testigo and, lastly, the whale in Margo Glantz' Doscientas ballenas azules. The corpus exhibits the passage from the total novel conceiving the book as a memory machine, to recognition of crisis and fragmentation of the archive, even its dissolution as well as the erasing of limits between the orders of culture and nature.

Keywords : Tropics; Narrative; Archive; Space; Latin American.

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