The impossible home: the experience of uprootedness in Margarita García Robayo’s Tiempo Muerto
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Margarita García Robayo, Tiempo muerto, uprootedness, migration, identityAbstract
In this article, we analyze the way in which the identity crisis associated with uprooting is addressed in the novel Tiempo muerto (2017) by Margarita García Robayo. We examine the implications that the status of Latino immigrants in the United States has had on the protagonists (Lucia and Pablo), based on the theoretical reflections on identity by Hall, Trigo and Ben-Rafael, among others. Likewise, we deepen on the importance, for the protagonists, of racial and ethnic categories in the construction of their identity and in the way they classify and relate to other Latinos residing in the United States.
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