Itinerant Citizens: Imagining Global Citizenship in the Works of Osvaldo Soriano

• Leila Lehnen ^[1]
  1. [1] University of New Mexico

     University of New Mexico

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Otoño 2012), págs. 171-197
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Global citizenship is at the heart of this chapter on Osvaldo Soriano’s post-national novels, La hora sin sombra and Una sombra ya pronto serás. Parsing the tension between national and global cultural flows, Lehnen’s examination of Soriano addresses one of the more complex themes taken on by the Generation of ’72: that of the forced global citizen. National iconographies darken and folkloric spaces, such as the Argentine Pampa, are hollowed out as “liquid modernities” replace the relative stability of national economies. This reification of spatial symbolic charge acts as a literary analogy for life under both the Junta and Menem, for Lehnen, speaking to the erosion of the basic functions of citizenship and the nation-state.