Poder, memoria y sujeto en Tikal Futura. Memorias para un futuro incierto (novelita futurista), de Franz Galich

Abstract

The current article enriches the reflection about the novel Tikal Futura, through the dialogue between such novel and the sociological literature related to Guatemalan society and theoretical analysis around the issue of subjectivity. La first section explores the literary representation of social exclusion through the concepts of “otherness” and “abjection”. The second one develops the relation between power and subjectivity taking under consideration their effects in the victims as well as in the victimizer. The concept of memory is central in the last section because in the novel the representation of the past is a key issue in the creation of effective forms of resistance.

Keywords

• identity
• power
• memory
• literature
• franz galich
• guatemala