Abstract

GUTIERREZ ALFONZO, Carlos. Encounters in a geographic space: Anthropology and Literature. LiminaR [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.2, pp.101-110.  Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v19i2.841.

Located at the vertex of the Cuchumatanes highlands and the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, in this text we are interested in establishing the way in which, through anthropology and literature, discoveries have been made when reading a geographical space; furthermore, attracted by the connections between these disciplines, we discuss how in the 1980s, as part of a historical and anthropological project, literature was a source to observe this region of the country. We then take examples from literary texts that refer to this particular stretch of the border, which was defined in 1882 by the national states of Mexico and Guatemala. This exercise has an academic interest in that it deepens understanding of an anthropology of literature on the border.

Keywords : literary discourses; literary anthropology; border.