La heterotopía en la obra de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Abstract

This article states the tendency in Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s writings towards a transgressive dialogue with the culturalistic discourse of national interpretation. It particularly examines the dismantling of certain topics and images which were used to describe the nation and the national thing. Among them, it studies the transgression of the national landscape’s arcadic vision, which characterizes a great deal of Puerto Rican literature since Romanticism. It proposes that the author uses Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia as an alternative way to conceptualize nation and national culture, as well as the literary text.