“Narrativas regionales de Costa Rica: ¿una ficción?”

Abstract

The following essay attempts to answer a series of questions on literature and regional narratives in Costa Rica. From instituting cultural canon and his enthronement and the “national” becomes problematic from the differences and concepts “imagined community” and “chronotope”. It also includes discussion between center / periphery (the margins, regional) and the site of enunciation of literary texts as well as residual stress comes practices and emerging practices; all it crossed by the speeches of constituted power. It is not far from conclusive work, it is rather to introduce the topic to other researchers, writers and scholars continue their development. The questions lead to others with the aim of promoting dialogue and discussion with potential readers.