Alienation and discrimination within the family: the figure of “the section” in the children´s and youth stories of Luis Carlos Suárez

Abstract

Storytelling, by constituting itself as a space for coincidence between writer and reader, opens up a viable path for us to insert ourselves into the knowledge of the social and humanistic sciences. In this way, traveling through this world allows an approach to recurring themes such as alienation and discrimination that, if from different disciplines, delve into topics of a social nature, also from the literary perspective it refers us to the work of authors who direct their norths to a demanding recipient full of questions. “Alienation and discrimination within the family: the figure of “the section” in the children’s and youth stories of Luis Carlos Suárez” is a way of reviewing the very essence of society and incorporating works to the long list of literary creations in the country start from a sensitivity for diverse and revealing themes and constitute, in fact, a contribution to Cuban publishing houses which contribute to the cultural development of the nation. By virtue of this, delving into both the writers and their texts would allow expanding the cultural and patrimonial knowledge of Cuba from aesthetic and social perspectives identified with the contemporary tendencies of the genre representative of the social problems of the period. The interpretation of the corpus is carried out from the tracing of the stories of the writer from Granma, to analyze the particular ways in which the unit produces meanings in its textualization, having as its center the aforementioned scourges.