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YANEZ DELGADO, Yanira. From tradition to rupture in three narrative works of Luis Rafael Sánchez. Letras [online]. 2010, vol.52, n.82, pp.131-156. ISSN 0459-1283.

The narrative work of Luis Rafael Sánchez starts in the 60s with the issue of En cuerpo de camisa, an anthology of short stories. Later, he published two novels, La guaracha del Macho Camacho (1976) and La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos (1989). In each work he departs from the totalizing criteria of Puerto Rican literature that was considered hegemonic until the 60s, and initiates a praxis that subverts the established order in its cultural field. The narrator’s creative project becomes realized with the construction of Puerto Rican and Caribbean identity. In this corpus we have found discursive ruptures, the incorporation of subaltern genres and marginal characters, as well as a constant problematization of Puerto Rican literature from irony and humor. All of this leads the work of Sánchez through a path of hybridization, the same path that configures Puerto Rican and Caribbean identity.

Palabras clave : Caribbean narrative; hybridization; subaltern genres.

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