Abstract

ALONSO, Mercedes. Light variations: Uruguay between local color and new weird. CELEHIS [online]. 2021, n.42, pp.71-80. ISSN 2313-9463.

Pedro Mairal’s La uruguaya (2016) and Santiago Craig’s Castillos (2020) can be read as closing the literary topic of the crossing between Buenos Aires and Uruguay, an idealization that begins during the Romantic period and takes shape in a corpus of novels from the 90s and first years of the 2000s. This article deals with texts that rework those conventions form a distance that originates, in La uruguaya, from the awareness of the topics functioning and, in Castillos, from its estrangement. While Mairal overdoes picturesque common places and reveals its sources, Craig shows its B-side: the other shore’s subtle differences are augmented to produce an alternate world where other rules and representational codes apply. This confrontation frames their different positions within the literary system: continuity with tradition or the production of new meanings by introducing outside materials.

Keywords : Contemporary Argentinean literature; Uruguay; local color; new weird.

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