Las máquinas deseantes de la cuentística regionalista centroamericana, 1930-1950

This comparative work approaches five regionalist short stories from the Central American canon of the first half of the twentieth century. I propose to read the afflictions their main characters suffer as a metaphysical dissidence against the effects of the colonial-imperialistcapitalist complex in Central American society. To this end, I identify pairs of antithetical images that disconnect the land from the regionalist characters, on the one hand, and that reconnect them with nature, on the other. Based on the notion of desiring machines by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I approach these images as the production of literary machines that produce flights of desire in the social production of capitalism.