Entre mitos, archivos y haches: Un acercamiento a la novela 'El hombre, la hembra y el hambre' de Daina Chaviano

The thesis examines the novel El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (1998), by Cuban author Daina Chaviano from a theoretical perspective proposed by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria in Mito y Archivo. According to this perspective, the Latin American narrative tradition consists of three main discourse modalities: legal, scientific and anthropological. The critic affirms that amid the previous century, the combination of these three discourse provoke " la ficcion de Archivo". At the same time this thesis shows the reasons to catalogue this novel inside these literary products, this work leads the analysis to questioning of the history, the role of women, and heterogeneous makeup of Cuban society according to contemporary cultural studies. During the course of this analysis, an alternative discourse emerges, one that attempts to give voice to those marginalized groups and events that have been overlooked by the dominant discourse.