Name: ANDRÉ LUIS DE MACEDO SERRANO
Publication date: 26/03/2026
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JOSEFA SÁNCHEZ CONTRERAS | Examinador Externo |
| LUIS EUSTAQUIO SOARES | Presidente |
| MARCUS DE MARTINI | Examinador Interno |
| RAFAEL SOUSA SIQUEIRA | Examinador Externo |
| ROBSON LOUREIRO | Examinador Interno |
Summary: The collection of short stories Rajatabla (2004) by Venezuelan writer Luis Britto García, brings together seventy-three narratives of a wide variety, addressing utopia, wars, horror, death, the unconscious, capitalism, fascism, the technological future, the colonial past, childhood, and much more. Due to the scope of this subject, an approach is proposed that focuses on one of the book’s five internal divisions, entitled “Calle ciega”. This section contains stories that directly or indirectly portray the mechanisms of control and oppression that perpetuate foreign domination and Latin American dependence. Published in 1970, the year in which he received the Casa de las Américas literary prize, held in Havana, Rajatabla is characterized by a dual style: on the one hand, it ironizes systemic exploitation and, on the other, it establishes itself as an insurgent literature. Rajatabla discursively incorporates the revolutionary culture of Latin America, in its anti-imperialist and continental integration enunciation, from the Cuban Revolution of 1959 to the independence struggles of Simón Bolívar. Based on the method of Marxist literary historiography, economic, political and cultural dependence is conjectured as a key factor for the interpretation of Latin American literature. Under the mediation of the conflict between Imperialism and Bolivarianism, as part and counterpart of the relations between Core and Periphery, to put it in terms of Dependency Theory, the argumentation of this thesis is based on the concept of Dependency Ideology, by literary critic Fábio Lucas; of Imperialism, following the critical tradition from Lenin to Theotonio dos Santos; and of international studies on Bolivarian Thought, including in this field Luis Britto García himself, as well as Iñaki Gil de San Vicente, Nestor Kohan, among others. Finally, the problem of cultural dependence in literary aesthetics is discussed based on the notions of realism and avant-garde, according to the production of the Hungarian intellectual Georg Lukács.
