Sentimentality in Unsentimental Times: Love in Jacinta Escudos and Luis Chaves

• Yvette Aparicio ^[1]
  1. [1] Grinnell College

     Grinnell College

     City of Grinnell, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 16, Nº. 2, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Winter 2019), págs. 211-223
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper focuses on the representation of romantic heterosexual relationships in post-conflict Central American literature, specifically in Crónicas para sentimentales (2010) by Salvadoran Jacinta Escudos and Asfalto: un road poem (2006) by Costa Rican Luis Chaves.I look at how global media, for instance “Killing Me Softly with His Song” in Escudos’ title story, serve as sentimental anchors in an unsentimental world that eschews lasting attachments. Global media makes visible and at times assuages romantic couples' isolation and alienation from each other. These media products fulfill narrators’ need for love and sentimentality without revealing their cursi-ness and thus, keeping in place sentimentales’ tenuous crónicas chronicling their unsentimentality