Os Deslocamentos culturais em The Lady Matador’s Hotel, de Cristina García

Abstract

The focus of this work was to analyze the novel named The Lady Matador's Hotel (2010), by the Cuban author Cristina García, on the post-colonial writing status, investigating the cultural shifts of the main characters who feature the novel, as well as the hotel where the story takes place and also investigates whether the selected literary narrative is representative of the Latin America’s literature. For that, concepts of identity and diaspora were contextualized, beyond the phenomena that are directly or indirectly connected with such concepts as transculturation, anthropophagy, multiculturalism, miscegenation and hybridity, as well as abrogation and appropriation. The cultural clashes were mentioned, in linguistic and literary terms, the potential for resistance and empowerment of the characters, as well as the presence of subaltern instance of writing, in other words, the game with the language in the representation of the subaltern, as the hybridization process of the language itself (English, Spanish, etc.). Lastly, it was analysed to what extent the selected characters represent the American people (Latin American people), through their cultural identities.