La Estrategia de Chochueca Summary – Term Paper

Book Summary of La Estrategia de Chochueca by Rita Indiana Hernandez

La Estrategia de Chochueca narrates the assault on the nights of Dominica Postmodernity. The setting of this narrative is in the city of Santo Domingo. Most of the population ids the youths whereby they are faced with issues that face their social life. In reflecting the actual image of the situation in the narrative Silvia, has been pointed out to be in middle of the dilemma.

Rita Indiana has used his literature work to bring a Caribbean sense of living. Rita Indiana explores within the dimension of the past narrative, Wanda Cosme- Dialogue, throughout her novel. The structure of Chochueca, the city of Santo Domingo, becomes the protagonist of the narrative. The city’s purpose was as a reference and the backbone to the subjects who habitat and who are the articulated such as the intimate relationship of the interdependence with the urban Santo Domingo at the end of the millennium. 

 La Estrategia de Chochueca Characters

The character of Silvia activates the story from the beginning up to the end, she stimulates the streets of the city, hence presented as a stealth city integrated by subaltern identities. The city was from the fall of the territory of Santo Domingo, characterized by narcotics, orgies, alcohol, music and misanthropy, that the subjects of the Dominican youth, they will deploy their ‘strategy’ in front of daily social life that does provide for them.  

Rita puts us in front of reality that has remained hidden for the Dominican narrative: a part of the youth of the 90. The first thing that arises is the confrontation, in the narrator’s mind, between the real and the virtual, typical battle of our postmodern world.;

La Estrategia de Chochueca Analysis

The narrator judges the previous generation, whereby in her opinion the people should have led to democratic change and avoid the “absurd gelatin” the historical present. Now this wave of longing for the political freedom that failed to materialize in the Dominican reality of the post-dictatorship is accompanied in the imagination of the narrator in a celebratory attitude of the loss of historicity in the imagination of the Dominican youth. This curious counterpoint between the typically modern longing of historical memory and the hostile nature, defines the history as a file in the postmodern manner, which becomes the predominant feature of the strategy. One could even interpret the scope of the bill that appealing of the novel as an attempt at the portrayal of postmodernism in literature, taking as urban socio-cultural reality of Santo Domingo current.;

“The mangled body of the deceased and his thousand versions have  appreciated me in the middle of the most carefree conversation, the real one that remained behind the circle that neighbors and pedestrians did around him … One and the other seemed the same to me” p. 10. This confrontation is going to take place, sometimes not so explicit, throughout the narrative, as in the case of the character Tony T., stuck to his computer, peeled to Caco, which gets the information “chatting with the cord. ” In this manner, it will begin to immerse us in the world that shares the narrative and its lovers. That world where the virtual has as much or more importance than the reality, but without excluding one another.

Generational boredom is portrayed in different stages of the play: “It was late, and I had no more than twenty pesos (Mexican monetary unit), but I was seventeen and bored unbearably (p. 14). This tells the mode at which the  city of Santo Domingo operates on 

 There are also the false heroes, the popes who today pass the bill for yesterday “…, and has in the eyes, those rare situations of those people who were tortured in the twelve years and now work together torturers.” (Page 69) There is no ideological defect in the narrative. “I realized that everything is the same, in the end, everything is a lie, we all want a Japanese cart and a pool (p. 70). It is a disappointment and a visceral boredom, lived from the inside and sharpened by an inhospitable environment that denies that segment of youth, of which the narrator is the part, some possibility of redemption. That is why small or large crimes that try to give color to a gray and tedious existence, “the tumble” of horns, drugs, forgery of checks, fraudulent use of credit cards.”  

Those parents who have left their children, “this illogical gelatin. After so much we want the world and we want it. So much historical laughter, both Marx and companion for this, this prank of small beasts without the idea, this Mac universe in the That you or tomb to contemplate the bubbles in the screensaver or you are tomb…;

In the “Chochueca Strategy,” the many talents of this writer appear, which, although very young, already occupies a space between the authors to be in sight in the next years.;

Conclusion

Rita Indiana Hern;ndez is a young author from Dominican whose first novel La Estrategiadewhich was published when she was 25. Also, she was known as the most important commitment to the Dominican story in 20 years. Amazing. There is an intriguing interview in English with her in his work in which she speaks regarding her poetry work as well as her 2005 novel Papi none of which I can discover about the issue.; The novel speaks of the social evils that sorround Dominica, the author believes that the youths have the power to make changes in their society, but they are falling to do so. The city has fallen to the alien hands and its being characterized by a lot of evils. The atmosphere in the city is unpleasant and boring, people are not living below their expectation and there is a need to revolutionize and bring change.;

Work Cited

Hern;ndez, R. I. (2003). La Estrategia de Chochueca: novela. Isla Negra Editores.