Memory of minor stories in Basuras de Shanghai by Germán Marín

Abstract

In this article we analyze the text Basuras de Shanghai by Germán Marín (2007), which is broached from two complementary viewpoints. The first, from a poststructuralist perspective, that deterritorializes the traditional idea of literature, to demonstrate a new literary perception that is within what it is called minor literature by Deleuze and Guattari. The second, belonging to a branch of Latin American literary criticism that, from Sarmiento to Piglia, via Borges, displaces the literary latinamerican tradition and proposes a new literary perception that rejects genres and rescues the non-official stories, incorporating the irreverent use of language as a mechanism that differentiates us from other cultures and contextualizes the European theories in Latin America.