La experiencia migrante en las crónicas de Gabriela Wiener

Abstract

This article analyses a migrant’s experience – one that changes, and is fluid and dynamic – in the selected reportages by the Peruvian author Gabriela Wiener – El Gran Viaje, Teléfono malogrado conmigo misma and Del lado de acá y del lado de allá. Following the concept of the vagabond as coined by Zygmunt Bauman, we show how the migrant status of the narrator-protagonist changes. We argue that this process takes place at the level each of given space: Peru – fades away, and Barcelona, at first a hostile place, becomes the place where she manages to forge her identity as a writer. To illustrate this point, we make recourse to the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault and César Aira.