Abstract

CUEVAS VELASCO, Norma Angélica. "Frontera de sal", the frame for a triptych of migrant Identity in Nadia Villafuerte’s fiction. LiminaR [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.2, pp.111-122.  Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v19i2.845.

This article examines two short storybooks and a novel by Nadia Villafuerte as a summa narrativa, like a triptych that in its composition incorporates a story, “Frontera de sal”, which appears in the first two volumes and is brought back and extended in its form and style by the end of the novel Por el lado salvaje. From the Latin-American studies perspective, particularly from Antonio Cornejo-Polar’s proposal, some textual and discursive elements are identified that specify the ways migrant characters are subjectivized, whose vision, experience, and voice weave what could be a border poetic, stylized not from the perspective of an omniscient narrator, but from migrants’ own declarations, who are multicultural subjects straddling a line of two different political and cultural spaces, where their identity accentuates the heterogeneity that defines them.

Keywords : Nadia Villafuerte; Mexican novel; migrants; multicultural; discursive hybridity.