Malcolm Lowry en el ocaso del Imperio
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Malcolm Lowry, escritor pós-colonial?. México na literatura inglesa. Análise do discurso colonial. Identidades pós-coloniais. Modernismo e ocaso do império.Resumen
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Este artículo propone una lectura de Bajo el volcán, de Malcolm Lowry, centrada en la importancia de la historia moderna y la presencia del Imperio Británico en la narración del último día de Geoffrey Firmin. Siguiendo la noción de una “lectura contrapuntística” de los textos canónicos ingleses formulada por Edward Said, planteo que al haber nacido en la India, el Cónsul (británico) no logra tener un sentido de pertenencia a la Gran Bretaña, sino que se encuentra en una situación intersticial y liminal que anticipa la ruptura entre una identidad imperial y una identidad nacional, una de las problemáticas mayores abordadas en los estudios teóricos actuales sobre la identidad (especialmente en los estudios poscoloniales). Desde esta perspectiva, el énfasis en situación imperial permite una lectura que rompe con las interpretaciones de México como un “paraíso infernal” que ha perpetuado el estereotipo de nuestro país incluso en estudios críticos sobre el novelista.
Palabras clave: Malcolm Lowry ¿escritor poscolonial?, México en la literatura inglesa, análisis del discurso colonial, identidades poscoloniales, modernismo y ocaso del imperio.
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