Metafiction in “El día que murió papá,” by Silvia Aguilar Zéleny

This article analyzes the short story “El día que murió papa” [The day that father died], by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny in Nenitas (2013). It is suggested that the use of metafiction shows the characters’ inner borders. By breaking with the traditional notions of border literature and approaching it from...

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Autores: Arias Sánchez, Erika Aguedha, Velasco Zárate, Kalinka, Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2022
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/17103
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/17103
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Mexican literature
short story
metafiction
border literature
literatura mexicana
cuento
metaficción
litertura fronteriza
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Resumo:This article analyzes the short story “El día que murió papa” [The day that father died], by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny in Nenitas (2013). It is suggested that the use of metafiction shows the characters’ inner borders. By breaking with the traditional notions of border literature and approaching it from a perspective beyond that of a geographical space or a linguistic phenomenon, the author problematizes the construction of the protagonists’ identity. Through metafiction and its linguistic concretion, she reflects on how different symbolic boundaries are manifested in this literature.