El álbum familiar de Mario Conde: transnacionalismo y memoria en Las cuatro estaciones de Leonardo Padura
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2018-08-30
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Gómez de Tejada, Jesús
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Universidad EAFIT
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La narrativa neopolicial del cubano Leonardo Padura Fuentes diluye los límites genéricos a través de la focalización de lo social por encima del proceso detectivesco. Los crímenes investigados por el teniente de policía Mario Conde en la tetralogía Las cuatro estaciones recrean la Cuba de 1989. A través del enfoque de la migración transnacional y la metodología propia del ámbito de la memoria en su trabajo con fotografías, este artículo analiza el álbum familiar del protagonista como dispositivo literario ligado a la nostalgia. Mediante este recurso, Padura refuerza la representación del peculiar transnacionalismo de Cuba, rasgo fundamental de su realidad, principalmente, a partir del Periodo Especial iniciado en los primeros años de los 90.
The neo-detective narrative by Cuban author Leonardo Padura Fuentes dilutes genre boundaries by focusing on the social element rather than on the detective process. The crimes investigated by police lieutenant Mario Conde in the tetralogy Las cuatro estaciones (the four seasons) recreate the 1989 Cuba. Through both the transnational migration approach and the characteristic methodology of the field of memory in his work with photographs, this paper analyzes the family album of the protagonist as a literary device linked to nostalgia. By using this resource, Padura intensifies the representation of the peculiar Cuban transnationalism, a paramount feature of its reality, mainly since the Special Period which started in the early 90s.
The neo-detective narrative by Cuban author Leonardo Padura Fuentes dilutes genre boundaries by focusing on the social element rather than on the detective process. The crimes investigated by police lieutenant Mario Conde in the tetralogy Las cuatro estaciones (the four seasons) recreate the 1989 Cuba. Through both the transnational migration approach and the characteristic methodology of the field of memory in his work with photographs, this paper analyzes the family album of the protagonist as a literary device linked to nostalgia. By using this resource, Padura intensifies the representation of the peculiar Cuban transnationalism, a paramount feature of its reality, mainly since the Special Period which started in the early 90s.