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GARCIA PENA, Lilia Leticia. "Normal" and stigmatized: symbols of social stigmatization in Juan Rulfo. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.64, pp.41-66. ISSN 1665-0565.

This work is a partial result of the extensive project “The pending stigma and new social actors in the essential works of contemporary Mexican literature”. Here are studied seven forms of social stigma encountered in the complete work of Juan Rulfo and its aesthetic representation in the symbolic network using as frame Erving Goffman’s microsociological theory. The methodology of Goffman, generated during the fifties, is a platform which allows the study of the social realities signified in the text both innovatively and rigorously. The microsocial review of Juan Rulfo’s work opens new possibilities of interpretation both of his poetic imperatives and of the social interactions in it represented, allowing us to approach to the mechanisms of social construction of the other and of sociocultural change.

Palavras-chave : Social stigma; symbolic representation; microsociology; Juan Rulfo.