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Venezuelan writer Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez’s novel Una tarde con campanas (2004) narrates the circumstances that led an undocumented Venezuelan fam-ily to move to Spain. Through the analysis of the novel, this article explores the creation of a subaltern, reterritorialized, and transcultural new urban space, a consequence of a large migrant presence in Madrid. My article identifies existing bridges and literary interrelations between both shores of the Atlantic Ocean and acknowledges migrant literature as a growing genre in Spain. This transatlantic investigation also addresses some fundamental concepts of migrant literature such as multiple representations of the Atlantic subject; the (re)construction of the colonial scene; the hybridization of the Spanish language and its cultures; the effects of deterritorialization and reterritorialization as a consequence of migration, diaspora, exiles and avant-gardes; and the significance of writing from abroad. Identifying a series of commonalities among novels written after Una tarde con campanas, I consider this novel to be the precursor of a migrant literature subgenre written by Latin American authors living in Spain. This article aims to contribute to the current literary dialogue that establishes Latin American narrative within a globalized context.
