Encierros generacionales y construcción de libertades en Hot sur de Laura Restrepo

Abstract

This article analyzes the different journeys of the Colombian migrant character María Paz and her desire to live the American dream through the novel Hot sur (2012) by Laura Restrepo. Throughout this diegesis, it is possible to elucidate different migratory expectations, symbolic confinements, as well as different daily experiences and physical confinements lived by this character. This is due to the fact that she is an undocumented migrant woman of Latino origin and accused of committing the murder of her husband. While these confinements are part of a cyclical and generic feminine inheritance of her family, where their bodies have been constantly locked up, on the other hand, there have also been tireless aspirations to build new paths to freedom. The character of María Paz aspires to become a free and autonomous subject from her subjectivity, her corporeality and her actions. In this way, she creates and represents new points of reference about female characters in Hispanic American literature.