Intertextualidad y espacio social : de Lima la horrible a Yo amo a mi mami
Since the colonial period, the elite groups have kept the authority of power in Peru by creating economic and racial differences. The social structure benefits a minority to the detriment of the majority. The minority dominance is carried out exclusively from Lima, and this supremacy causes the administrative, social and economic centralism of the capital.   Our research problem reflects on how the literary text establishes the relationships between the centralism in Lima, the organization of the urban space, and the social inequalities in Peru. Many Peruvian authors have devoted their literary production to this topic. In our study, we analyze two literary works: Lima la horrible (1964) by Sebastián Salazar Bondy, and Yo amo a mi mami (1999) by Jaime Bayly, paying specific attention to how Bayly's work refers through a series of intertextual strategies to that of Salazar Bondy.  The space of the city of Lima serves as the substrate for the dialectics of the storyline in both Bayly’s novel and Salazar Bondy’s essay. The space operates as leit motive and transtextual structure. It is our hypothesis that Lima la horrible is a palimpsest of Yo amo a mi mami, and that the discourse presented in Salazar Bondy's work is embedded in Bayly´s novel. In these works the representation of the urban space emerges from the lived experience of the authors, who question the sociocultural foundations of their country.
Lima Salazar Bondy Bayly intertextuality lived space urban space centralism