Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández

This article analyses three stories from the book De fronteras by Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández: Mediodía de fronteras, Carretera sin buey and Lázaro, el buitre, in the light of Kafka’s animal narratives in which conventional human perspectives on animals and animality are subverted, thus conf...

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Main Author: Laura Martínez Abarca
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2023-12-01
Series:Svět Literatury
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Online Access:https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2023/11/Laura_Martinez_Abarca_215-220.pdf
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description This article analyses three stories from the book De fronteras by Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández: Mediodía de fronteras, Carretera sin buey and Lázaro, el buitre, in the light of Kafka’s animal narratives in which conventional human perspectives on animals and animality are subverted, thus configuring a gaze of their own. A gaze that in Hernández’s stories, through the narrator’s voice, allows us to imagine a symbiosis between the animal and the human.
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spelling doaj.art-14ee4edd58874a18ab71095f5623237e2023-12-19T10:02:52ZcesUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická FakultaSvět Literatury0862-84402336-67292023-12-01XXXIIISI21522010.14712/23366729.2023.3.20Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia HernándezLaura Martínez AbarcaThis article analyses three stories from the book De fronteras by Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández: Mediodía de fronteras, Carretera sin buey and Lázaro, el buitre, in the light of Kafka’s animal narratives in which conventional human perspectives on animals and animality are subverted, thus configuring a gaze of their own. A gaze that in Hernández’s stories, through the narrator’s voice, allows us to imagine a symbiosis between the animal and the human.https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2023/11/Laura_Martinez_Abarca_215-220.pdffranz kafkaclaudia hernándezanimalssalvadoran short storymini-fiction
spellingShingle Laura Martínez Abarca
Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
Svět Literatury
franz kafka
claudia hernández
animals
salvadoran short story
mini-fiction
title Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
title_full Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
title_fullStr Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
title_full_unstemmed Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
title_short Animales que sueñan: Kafka en la minificción centroamericana: De fronteras de Claudia Hernández
title_sort animales que suenan kafka en la minificcion centroamericana de fronteras de claudia hernandez
topic franz kafka
claudia hernández
animals
salvadoran short story
mini-fiction
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