Escritura y memoria en el Caribe: La crónica de la ciudad en <i>Trilogía sucia de La Habana</i> y <i>Cualquier miércoles soy tuya</i>

Abstract

In this article, I propose that Pedro Juan Gutierrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana (1998) and Mayra Santos-Febres's Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (2002) show the process of writing production as a metaphor that exemplifies the walking rhetoric by writing the chronicle of the city. Trilogía sucia de La Habana and Cualquier miércoles soy tuya have two journalists as their protagonists -Pedro Juan and Julián Castrodad- who are present as chroniclers of their cities -La Havana and San Juan- and who take their readers through the streets, houses, and motels of these two Caribbean cities. In doing so, they remember and recreate the history of the cities, recovering and reelaborating the collective memory of the marginalized ones. Trilogía sucia contests the economic crisis in Cuba and Cualquier miércoles vindicates the production of a literature without gender labels.