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

• Authors: Martínez Abarca Laura

Title variants

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Animals that dream: Kafka in Central American microfiction: De fronteras by Claudia Hernández

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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Franz Kafka; Claudia Hernández; animals; Salvadoran short story; mini-fiction

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 33
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 215-220

Contributors

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Martínez Abarca Laura