“Normal” and stigmatized: symbols of social stigmatization in Juan Rulfo

Authors

  • Lilia Leticia García Peña Facultad de Letras y Comunicación at Universidad de Colima, Mexico.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/espiral.v22i64.2919

Keywords:

Social stigma, symbolic representation, microsociology, Juan Rulfo

Abstract

This work is a partial result of the extensive project “The pending stigma and new social actors in the essential works of contemporary Mexican literature”. Here are studied seven forms of social stigma encountered in the complete work of Juan Rulfo and its aesthetic representation in the symbolic network using as frame Erving Goffman’s microsociological theory. The methodology of Goffman, generated during the fifties, is a platform wich allows the study of the social realities signified in the text both innovatively and rigorously. The microsocial review of Juan Rulfo’s work opens new possibilities of interpretation both of his poetic imperatives and of the social interactions in it represented, allowing us to approach to the mechanisms of social construction of the other and of sociocultural change.

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Author Biography

Lilia Leticia García Peña, Facultad de Letras y Comunicación at Universidad de Colima, Mexico.

Professor-Researcher at Facultad de Letras y Comunicación at Universidad de Colima, Mexico.

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Published

2015-08-17

How to Cite

García Peña, L. L. (2015). “Normal” and stigmatized: symbols of social stigmatization in Juan Rulfo. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 22(64), 41-66. https://doi.org/10.32870/espiral.v22i64.2919

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 64: Espiral 64 (september-december 2015)

Section

Teoría y Debate

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