Stereotypical Representations of the Border Space in some Mexican Fictions about Tijuana

Abstract

The city of Tijuana, the quintessential archetype for thinking the social and cultural dynamics of life on the border, has been described and represented to the point of exhaustion in literature. Tijuana as a transit point without culture or past, Tijuana as the laboratory of postmodernity and Tijuana asthe international capital of organized crime are some of the frequent common places in the literature about Tijuana. This article reviews some fictions of Californians authors such as Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, Heriberto Yépez and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite to deconstruct the most common prejudices and stereotypes around the unique Mexican border city.

Keywords

• Tijuana
• Frontera
• Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz
• Heriberto Yépez
• Luis Humberto Crosthwaite