The homoerotic migrant in The Vampire of the Rome Colony by Luis Zapata

Abstract

The novel The vampire of the colony Rome (1979) of the Mexican writer Luis Zapata, it can be inscribed inside the calls heterogeneous literatures, because it summons in their writing those "other" literatures that allow to "not always explore the voices clearly audible of subjected or buried cultures, through the peculiar forms that these assume to be represented (Moraña). The novel of Zapata presents us the vital itinerary of an autobiographical migrant fellow of character that he/she relates a direct speaker the instances and stays lived in the space of the marginal homosexuality. The migrant homoerotic traffics in the precarious undergrounds of the great cityCiudad de México. There, the migrant subject reactivates his memory to testify and to validate other "existential alternatives", as Antonio Cornejo Polar told us so lucidly.