La materia del deseo (2001), Los vivos y los muertos (2009) y Norte (2011), de Edmundo Paz Soldán: migración y reterritorialización en los espacios del otro y sus interacciones con los lenguajes artísticos y mass mediáticos

Abstract

In recent years, several writers have addressed the migration process and its implications on the main characters. In this study, Edmundo Paz Soldán’s novels La materia del deseo (2001), Los vivos y los muertos (2009), and Norte (2011) are reviewed from the following theoretical perspectives: migration, resignification, and reterritorialization of the spaces of the other, languages artistic and mass media, used in the structuring of the plot of these novels. The objective of this study is to highlight the social and cultural signs within the following categories: migration, reterritorialization, artistic languages, and the mass media, in order to make the resignification of space of the other visible in the novels: La materia del deseo (2001), Los vivos y los muertos (2009), and Norte (2011) by Edmundo Paz Soldán were produced in the 2000s. To achieve the specific objective, a qualitative research approach and semiotics were used, along with tools that allowed for a deep analysis of the aforementioned literature. This work broadens the panorama of Latin American studies, because the selected works make the particular social and cultural behaviors visible, specifically in literary textualities, such as novels