: In this framework, "fantasmas" represent the marginalized populations and the "disappeared." The city itself becomes a spectral archive where the writer must find the "witnesses" among the ruins of the Mexican landscape. Socio-Political Haunting in the Spanish Context
: The protagonist exists in a state of constant recollection, where her own identity becomes "weightless" (ingrávido). She is haunted by the literary ghost of Gilberto Owen, a real-life Mexican poet. Entre Fantasmas
In her critical work Entre héroes, fantasmas y apocalípticos (Between Heroes, Ghosts, and Apocalyptics), Anadeli Bencomo examines how the Mexican chronicle uses these archetypes to describe a landscape of social and political crisis. : In this framework, "fantasmas" represent the marginalized
To exist "entre fantasmas" in modern Spanish literature is to live in the intersection of what is present and what is remembered. Whether through Luiselli’s weightless poetry, Bencomo’s political chronicles, or the feminist reclamation of history, the ghost serves as a vital tool for understanding identity. It bridges the gap between the individual and a collective past that refuses to stay buried. In her critical work Entre héroes, fantasmas y
: By placing the narrator "among ghosts," Luiselli suggests that memory is not a linear history but a spatial experience where the past and present occupy the same room. The characters are not haunted by spirits, but by the echoes of their own lives and the literary figures they obsess over. Landscapes of the Disappeared: Anadeli Bencomo