El amor en cuatro cuentos centroamericanos
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2023-01-17
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Martínez Alpízar, Diana María
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Este artículo analiza el tema del amor en una selección de cuentos escritos por cuatro autoras centroamericanas: Jessica Clark, María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra, Jennifer Rebecca Valiente y Denisse Phé-Funchal. Ellas comienzan a publicar a inicios del siglo XXI, por lo que la crítica literaria académica sobre su obra apenas despunta. De ahí que sea necesario prestar atención a estas voces que, poco a poco, se consolidan en la literatura centroamericana. Con este propósito, el presente artículo se concentra en cómo se (re)formula el amor y temas vinculados estrechamente con él— matrimonio y familia, por ejemplo— en el corpus elegido. Luego de una teorización sobre el amor y sus transformaciones en el devenir de la historia, se contextualiza brevemente el panorama actual en la literatura centroamericana y se presenta un sucinto estado de la cuestión sobre la obra general de cada una de las escritoras. Por último, se analizan los textos seleccionados. Para este fin, se recurre a distintas herramientas, tanto del análisis estructural (narrador, personajes, acontecimientos, planos narrativos, por ejemplo) como del semiótico, con el fin de relacionarlos con el tema en cuestión. Se concluye que, en el corpus analizado, los personajes, en su mayoría, se desvinculan del amor romántico, ya sea debido a que se percibe como peligroso o imposible de concretar. En los casos en los que los personajes se comprometen a la búsqueda de su “media naranja”, el final es trágico.
The present article analyzes the love in four short stories written by Central American female writers: Jessica Clark, María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra, Jennifer Rebecca Valiente y Denisse Phé-Funchal. These writers started to publish at the begging of 21th century; by contrast, the academic production about them is still raising. For that reason, it is necessary to pay attention to these voices that, little by little, step up in Central American literature. With that aim, the present article focus in how are the love and topics related with it (like family or marriage) (re)formulated. After a theorization about love and its transformations in the History, it presents a brief contextualization about the present in Central American Literature and a state of the art about the critical reception of the writers. Lastly, the article presents the analyzes of each short stories, based on several tool provided by structuralism (like narrator voice, characters, narrative levels) and by semiotic. It concludes that in the short history the characters detach from romantic love, because it is dangerous, or it is impossible to achieve. In other cases, the characters that are committed with the search of romantic love ended in tragic ways.
The present article analyzes the love in four short stories written by Central American female writers: Jessica Clark, María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra, Jennifer Rebecca Valiente y Denisse Phé-Funchal. These writers started to publish at the begging of 21th century; by contrast, the academic production about them is still raising. For that reason, it is necessary to pay attention to these voices that, little by little, step up in Central American literature. With that aim, the present article focus in how are the love and topics related with it (like family or marriage) (re)formulated. After a theorization about love and its transformations in the History, it presents a brief contextualization about the present in Central American Literature and a state of the art about the critical reception of the writers. Lastly, the article presents the analyzes of each short stories, based on several tool provided by structuralism (like narrator voice, characters, narrative levels) and by semiotic. It concludes that in the short history the characters detach from romantic love, because it is dangerous, or it is impossible to achieve. In other cases, the characters that are committed with the search of romantic love ended in tragic ways.
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escritoras, análisis literario, AFECTIVIDAD, LITERATURA LATINOAMERICANA, CENTROAMÉRICA