The Narrative Is (Not) the Territory: Luis Cardoza y Aragón's Guatemala, las líneas de su mano and the Guatemalan Revolution

Authors

  • Brian Davisson Mississippi State University

Keywords:

Luis Carodoza y Aragón, Central America, Guatemala, Guatemalan Revolution, exile, communism, space

Abstract

Luis Cardoza y Aragón's Guatemala, las líneas de su mano, published in 1955, following the end of the Guatemalan Revolution, describes the author's relationship with his native country and its revolutionary period. Along with the political circumstance of its composition, Cardoza's work places its author within the aesthetic, cultural, and territorial context of Guatemala stretching from the precolumbian era until the 1950s. Study of the work is complicated by the end of the Guatemalan Revolution in 1954, prior to the work's composition. This article provides a reading of Guatemala, las líneas de su mano, with a focus on Cardoza's representation of himself as a Guatemalan, filtered through his relationship to the territorial integrity of the nation and his subsequent exile.

Author Biography

Brian Davisson, Mississippi State University

Brian Davisson is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Mississippi State University. His research interests include 19th and 20th century Central American and 20th century Spanish literature, exile, historiography, and space theory.

Published

2013-01-31

How to Cite

Davisson, B. (2013). The Narrative Is (Not) the Territory: Luis Cardoza y Aragón’s Guatemala, las líneas de su mano and the Guatemalan Revolution. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 10(2), 102–125. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/575

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