Alí onde habitamos: a subversión do non-lugar nos relatos de Lucia Berlin e Ismael Ramos

Abstract

The concept of non-place coined by Marc Augé thirty years ago became one of the most highlighted theoretical bases of the current literary studies. This trend arises, to a large extent, from the fact that space constitutes one of the intrinsically elementary pillars of the narrative architecture. Likewise, the theoretical formulation around supermodernity that underlies this term is of great interest to analyze the symptoms of the economic, social and emotional precariousness of the contemporary world and its manifestations in literature, and therefore to the understanding of the text. In the present essay we will approach this question from the comparatist methodology through the analysis of a selection of short stories of the American writer Lucia Berlin and the Galician Ismael Ramos, two authors separated in time, space and style, but that we consider that they share a similar treatment of non-place, based on its subversion by the construction of a narrative voice traversed by subjectivity, class consciousness and affection.