La identidad errática en Barataria.
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2014
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Escuela de Letras. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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Mediante una reescritura del Quijote en clave puertorriqueña, la novela Barataria (2012) de Juan López Bauzá expone las consecuencias negativas que se originan en la obsesión letrada por una épica nacional (trágica o heroica). Frente a esta situación, la novela ofrece la posibilidad de mirar más allá de los límites del tema estatuario y aceptar un fracaso constitutivo. De este modo sería posible entrever un posicionamiento alternativo tendiente a asumir una identidad errática que permitiría un tipo de subjetividad subalterna deseante y en fuga del deber ser de la nación.
: In rewriting the Quixote from a Puerto Rican perspective, the novel Barataria (2012) by Juan López Bauzá, exposes the negative consequences wich originate in the lettered class’ obsession to achieve a (tragic or heroic) national epic. Against this back-ground the novel offers an opportunity to look beyond the issue of the Island’s status to accept a constitutive failure. This way, the novel proposes an alternative subjectivity that assumes an erratic identity to evade the moral mandate of the nation.
: In rewriting the Quixote from a Puerto Rican perspective, the novel Barataria (2012) by Juan López Bauzá, exposes the negative consequences wich originate in the lettered class’ obsession to achieve a (tragic or heroic) national epic. Against this back-ground the novel offers an opportunity to look beyond the issue of the Island’s status to accept a constitutive failure. This way, the novel proposes an alternative subjectivity that assumes an erratic identity to evade the moral mandate of the nation.
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Puerto Rico, Barataria, Errático, Épica, Nation, Erratic, Epic