Abstract

MENDEZ-SANCHEZ, Diana Verónica. Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea: a Reflection on the Binary Construction Hegemony Versus Subordination. La Palabra [online]. 2019, n.35, pp.101-114. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n35.2019.8975.

This paper studies Margarita, está linda la mar [Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea] (1998) by Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez in regards to his relation with the context (postcolonial theory). From this point of view, an analysis in the dichotomous hegemony versus subordination is proposed, where colonial influence is revealed from hegemonic projects. So, on the one hand it is demonstrated the hegemonic presence -politic and military- through the comparison of the two historical scenarios represented, as a consequence of the military intervention on the part of the national and foreign military forces that represented the control and the repression of a whole country, and, in the other hand the reflections around the condition of subordination seen as an expression and opposing party of the embedded and integrated domination of the oppressed individuals.

Keywords : postcolonial; hegemony; subordinating; domination; oppression; history.

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