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Que Vivan Los Estudiantes: Cycles Of Contention And The Chilean Student Movement (1906-Present), Jonah Watt
Que Vivan Los Estudiantes: Cycles Of Contention And The Chilean Student Movement (1906-Present), Jonah Watt
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On The Road To Nowhere: A Reading Of Franz Galich’S Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame Otra Vez!), Kerri A. Muñoz
On The Road To Nowhere: A Reading Of Franz Galich’S Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame Otra Vez!), Kerri A. Muñoz
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On the Road to Nowhere:
A Reading of Franz Galich’s Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame otra vez!)
This article examines how Franz Galich, in Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame otra vez!), narrates the Central American neoliberal experience from the perspective of the underprivileged. I explore how, beginning with the title, the author positions his protagonists in the neoliberal, fragmented moment. From there, Galich proceeds to document a night in the life of the marginalized. Here, Beatriz Cortez’s concept of cinismo is used to understand how the role-playing, that is central to the novel, brings into question arbitrary social barriers. In so …