Undo, Redo, Delete: Visions of Home and its Implications in Contemporary Hispanic American Literature

Abstract

In the article three short stories will be analized from three Spanish-American authors (two Argentines, Ana María Shua and Samantha Schweblin, and a Chilean, Andrea Jeftanovic), who in some way give a vision of the conditions how home and its implications like family and human relationships change in contemporary societies. On the theoretical level, we start from ideas of Zygmunt Bauman about “liquid modernity” and “liquid love” that depict today’s societies’ nature, and for the interpretation we use the metaphor of the commands in modern editing software functions: undo, redo, delete.