The story of a Man Called Pedro Navaja: The Song Chronicle and the Aesthetics of the Popular

Authors

  • Jairo Eduardo Soto Molina Universidad del Atlántico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.10

Abstract

This paper reviews the narrative tech- niques for short stories and how they are applied in Blades’ narration of the events in Pedro Navaja’s salsa song. It highlights the way the characters in the story are presented in a symmetrical de- sign to account for the actions in which they are involved. Likewise, it aims to point out that researchers and scholars should take up the relationship between music and literature. Furthermore, in this paper we consider musicality of vital im- portance in the use of terms during a narration. Blades uses popular sayings, which reveal our cotidianity and cultural heritage in popular literature, to structure his view of our cultural identity’s as Latin Americans. Pedro Navaja is presented as the most relevant piece of what we have called as the song chronicle. This article will give you a great deal of sur- prises just as life does.

 

Keywords: Song cronicle, Popular literature, Nar- rative forms, Gender-umbrella, Social awareness.

How to Cite

Soto Molina, J. E. (2016). The story of a Man Called Pedro Navaja: The Song Chronicle and the Aesthetics of the Popular. Cuadernos De Literatura Del Caribe E Hispanoamérica, (23), 201–217. https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.10

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Published

2016-11-24