Power relations, social imaginaries, and identity practices in contemporary Bolivian narrative 2000-2010

This research analyzes a corpus of narrative texts published in Bolivia between 2000 and 2010 written by Edmundo Paz Soldán, Giovanna Rivero, Juan Pablo Piñeiro, Maximiliano Barrientos, Liliana Colanzi, Sebastián Antezana, and Rodrigo Hasbún. The corpus is examined from three conceptual perspectives: power relations, social imaginaries, and identity practices. The dynamics of power relations are understood as a way of thinking about a possible social organization, from its macro to its micro levels, in which configurations of the ways in which subjects relate to each other appear. The concept of social imaginaries assumes that societies try to explain themselves based on imaginary meanings that allow us to understand the ways in which the social and the cultural are articulated. Identity practices allow us to define an identity based on the observation and analysis of various social practices. This conceptual matrix, then, makes it possible to analyze the corpus based on certain problematizations that are developed throughout the work.
In its theoretical aspects, the research recovers and dialogues with the critical work of both Bolivian researchers and those from Córdoba and the rest of Argentina, this being one of its most original aspects. On a methodological level, the work addresses
the analysis of the Bolivian literary tradition in tension with contemporary text.

This research analyzes a corpus of narrative texts published in Bolivia between 2000 and 2010. The study of Bolivian literature also involves an in-depth analysis of the social and political dynamics affecting this Andean-Amazonian country. In this regard, the analysis of categories such as territory, writing, and identity, among others, is
fundamental to this work.