Abstract
This paper focuses on the use of metafiction in contemporary nonfiction stories exploring the idea of travel and immigration from a Latin American perspective. It particularly reflects on the cronista or storyteller’s self-representation and space, as an attempt to identify new encounters with the other in highly unstable and violent contexts. This is shown through the analysis of two works published in diverse formats: Martín Caparrós’s Una luna. Diario de hiperviaje (2009) and Óscar Martínez’s text from the digital project De migrantes a refugiados: el nuevo drama centroamericano (2018). The paper considers an interdisciplinary approach, dealing with intertextuality and transmedia theories, and proposing a new reading of Latin American crónica for the 21st century which looks at the genre as a collective and polyphonic cultural product.
| Translated title of the contribution | Travel Companions: Meta(non)fiction as a literary device for credibility |
|---|---|
| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 113-140 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Literatura y Lingüística |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue number | 40 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Oct 2019 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
Keywords
- Metafiction
- migration studies
- Travel literature
- Latin American Literature
- Central America
- cosmopolitanism, communitarianism, nationalism, boundaries, threats, human rights, protest, Third World, postcolonial
- Transmediation
- storytelling
- Testimony
- Journalism
- Martín Caparrós
- Óscar Martínez
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