The migrant and the avatars of inhabiting “the between” in Luna Latina en Manhattan by Jaime Manrique
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.10932Keywords:
identity, migrante, to live in between, heterogeneity, place, not place, hypermodernity, Manrique, Jaime, Luna Latina en ManhattanAbstract
The aim of this article is to analyzed Luna Latina en Manhattan, by Jaime Manrique. The novel is structured around the duality in which the principal protagonist lives, that is, between two worlds, two cultures and two languages, corresponding to both social and geographical modals of the protagonist: Colombia and The United States. The topic of the individual identity is investigated as a product of the movement and of the constant exchange of the protagonist with his environment. For this study, two indispensable concepts are used: the cultural heterogeneity and the migrant, postulated by, Antonio Cornejo Polar. Although Cornejo Polar’s definitions of heterogeneity and migration allude to the Andean world and Latin-American cultures, they perfectly apply to the subjects and to the cultural phenomena that are the product of the modern migrations from the third to the first world. One of the premises that move the analysis is to think the literary text as Alejo Carpentier proposes it, that is: an instrument of investigation, a way of knowledge of men and epochs which exceeds, in many cases, the intentions of the author.
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