Abstract

CUVARDIC GARCIA, Dorde. The Costa Rican narrative in the face of the new means of transportation:the subjective experience of a plane trip in “Pasajeros al norte”. Comunicación [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.2, pp.32-40. ISSN 1659-3820.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18845/rc.v25i2-16.3181.

The Costa Rican narrative in the face of the new means of transportation: the subjective experience of a plane trip in “Pasajeros al norte”

When Yolanda Oreamuno published this narration in the Repertorio Americano, in September 1944, commercial flights represented an experience for a minority for most of the world’s population, and particularly for the rural Costa Rica at that time. The enunciating voice of “Pasajeros al norte” provides a comprehension exercise, between the psychological and the microsociological of a newest experience: a trip on a new means of transportation: a plane, which goes beyond the time and space coordinates: it stimulates a panoramic view of the earthly surface and imposes long-distance relationships -and their possible annulment among the passengers.

Keywords : Means of transportation; Costa Rican literature; travel literature; Costa Rican short story.

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