De violencia, de normalización y De fronteras

• Main Author: Maria Catalina Rincon-Chavarro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2013-04-01
• Series: Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
• Subjects: Violence; Reader; Grotesque; Estrangement; Contemporary; Normalization
• Online Access: http://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/catedraltomada/article/view/27

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="es-ES">In this analisis of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="es-ES"><em>De fronteras</em></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-style: normal;">,</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="es-ES"> the collection of short stories by the Salvadorian writer Claudia Hernández, I study how the writer, through the use of a grotesque aesthtic, critiques the way violence has become normalized in a neoliberal state. I show that in the enunciation of the normalization of the grotesque, Hernández posits the notion of contemporary time as a discursive space already constructed by history but also ready to be constructed by the reader.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"></span></p>