Iberoamericana
Volume 17, Issue 66, 2017, Pages 189-204

Childhood migrants: Territories, journeys and displacements, in Cronwell Jara's Montacerdos [Infancias migrantes: Territorios, trayectos y desplazamientos en Montacerdos, de Cronwell Jara] (Article)

Alzate N.A.*
  • a Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Abstract

This article analyzes the writing of forced displacement in the novel Montacerdos (1981), by the Peruvian author Cronwell Jara. The narration gives an insight in the mobile universe of migrant children and suggests a cultural construction of childhood that, in contrast to the hegemonic vision, validates its existence in the displacement. The marks of migration that shape the childhood of the principal characters are narrated through the memory of a female voice. The body and the house appear as topoi of violence and marginality.

Author Keywords

Feminized bodies Cronwell Jara Peruvian literature violence Childhood displacement

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85035360275&doi=10.18441%2fibam.17.2017.66.189-204&partnerID=40&md5=1733d44399271870fa18340e20242813
DOI: 10.18441/ibam.17.2017.66.189-204
ISSN: 15773388
Original Language: Spanish