Open AccessRuina/basural: Lógicas temporales y espaciales de la ciudad de La Paz en Saenz y Viscarra
Author(s) -
Irina Alexandra Feldman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bolivian studies journal/bolivian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-5163
pISSN - 1074-2247
DOI - 10.5195/bsj.2021.253
Subject(s) - narrative , queer , representation (politics) , humanities , pace , space (punctuation) , sociology , art , aesthetics , geography , gender studies , political science , philosophy , literature , law , linguistics , politics , geodesy
This article analyzes spatio-temporal logics in the representation of the city of La Paz in Imágenes Paceñas by Jaime Saenz and the urban chronicles of Víctor Hugo Viscarra. Juxtaposing the concepts of chrononormativity and queer time, it explores how linear temporal logic remains insufficient for the understanding of the city and its inhabitants in the two narrative projects. The article postulates that the marginal spaces of architectural ruins and garbage dumps, and the marginalized people who inhabit queer space-time are key to “revealing the hidden city” and understanding its contradictory place in the national narrative and space.