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BOHORQUEZ, Douglas. Canon and representation of what is real in Laura Antillano’s short narrative. Letras [online]. 2007, vol.49, n.75, pp.151-177. ISSN 2791-1179.

This paper proposes a study of the production of the short narrative of the Venezuelan writer Laura Antillano (1950) from at least two critical stances:  a) the transgression against traditional Venezuelan narrative; and b) an interpretation of the fictional universe of her short stories that derives from the way she proposes a literary representation of what is real. So we notice the presence of a new modality of realism in her narrative texts that flows throughout the re-configuration of reality and the discursive staging of that sensitivity that is capable of unfolding itself literarily, that is, feminine sensitivity. We then see that all the short narrative of Laura Antillano is an attempt of an intertextual dialogue and of a representation of other languages: popular music, oral language, painting, politic and social history, and cinema, all of which become codes and symbolic forms that the author reinvents in order to generate a very particular imagery and literary aesthetics.

Palavras-chave : canon; representation; short story.