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Frontiers on Tenterhooks. A Study on Hot Sur by Laura Restrepo
(CONSEJO SUPERIOR INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS-CSIC, 2016-01-01) C. ARDILA-JARAMILLO; Departamento de Humanidades; Estudios de Filosofía, Hermenéutica y Narrativas
The Colombian author Laura Restrepo suggests her last novel, Hot Sur, to be considered as a novel of frontiers. This novel shows the misleading power of the American dream for the Latin-American population, and at the same time, reviews the numerous preconceptions linked to the configuration of the citizens of the South. This paper offers the reader with a hermeneutical analysis of the comparison between the inhabitants of the North versus those of the South, as developed by the author through a crime novel. For this purpose the analysis will focus on two dichotomous motives: the language/the writing and the clean/the dirty, which are proposed as parameters of comparison and coincidence between the two cultures.