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TABOADA HERNANDEZ, Marco Polo. The book of displacements: Manifestations of narrative heterogeneity in Valeria Luiselli’s Desierto sonoro. Lit. mex [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.2, pp.209-241.  Epub 08-Ago-2022. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.33.2.7731x07.

Based on the contributions of Peruvian theorist and critic Antonio Cornejo Polar on narrative heterogeneity, this paper proposes an interpretation of Valeria Luiselli’s most recent novel, Desierto sonoro (2019). In this text I postulate that, without undermining the explicit sources to which the novel alludes and recovers, it is possible to link it to a deeply rooted narrative tradition in Latin America: that which represents sociocultural otherness. The tensions between the fiction referent (the Chiricahua tribes of the 19th century and the children who cross the border into the United States in the 21st century) and the narrative perspectives that present the events involve different displacements (of characters, knowledge, diegetic levels, and narrative points of view) oriented to the representation of a harmonious encounter between two opposing sociocultural groups.

Palabras llave : Latin American literature; 21st century novel; migration; sociocultural otherness; border; archive.

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