La comparación como recurso crítico en "El espíritu de mi tierra".

Abstract

This article analyzes the text "The Spirit of My Land" with the intent of determining of what the critical vision consists that Yolanda Oreamuno constructs around farmers. Forms of comparison are studied as presented by the text, and emphasizes the selection of the insect called the cicada as the principle generating nucleus of semiosis. The analysis allows as well to observe the discursive elaboration of a contradictory image of the farmer than what has predominated in the works of other authors in Costa Rican literature in the last three decades of the twentieth century, principally, through a ideological fracture which affects the collective national imagery.