Death and sovereignty in urban borderlands: Guuillermo Fadanelli's Hotel DF

• Autores: Thelma Jiménez Anglada
• Localización: Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, ISSN 0145-8973, Vol. 47, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 177-194
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A complex urban spatiality, composed of mercurial borderlands, is fabricated by the presence of narcotrafficking in Guillermo Fadanelli's Hotel DF (2010). Fadanelli's version of a turn-of-the-century Mexico City has been surreptitiously occupied by the forces of a "narco" that constantly creates and shifts a series of nearly imperceptible urban borders that operate under a strict politics of death. From these liminal spaces-spaces that have been intersected by the multiple temporalities of violence that shape Mexico City-sovereign powers are systematically contested in the text. But Fadanelli's novel not only entertains the reproduction of some of the methods utilized by the modern state's border, Hotel DF also anticipates the sway of narcotrafficking in Mexico's capital long before the national news outlets were willing to do so.