Fictional Strategies and Metatext in B.P. Hasdeu’s Duduca Mamuca
Fictional Strategies and Metatext in B.P. Hasdeu’s Duduca Mamuca

Summary/Abstract: Displaying a long history of problematic and complicated interpretations, the short-story Duduca Mamuca systematically de-constructs the fictional-melodramatic textual structures to metatextually re-write the 19th century narrative. On one hand, our study will reshape the literary convention and the de-constructing narrative strategies inserted in Hasdeu’s text. On the other hand, it will analyze the way in which this type of functional deviation of narrative categories and marks generates a second grade fictional world – complex and appealing – in which the parodic and ludic intermingles with irony under the authority of the metatext – complicated in its forms, but malicious in its nature.

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