Маргинализовани ликови и хибридни идентитети у причама „Две обале“ и „Аполон и курве”
Marginalised Characters and Hybrid Identities in the Short Stories “The Two Shores” and “Apolo and the Whores”

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the role given to the marginal characters in Carlos Fuentes’s short stories “The Two Shores” and “Apollo and the Whores”. The narrator of the first story, Jerónimo de Aguilar, is a historical figure to whom Fuentes, in order to give a voice to the figures that have disappeared from the official historical record, gives the power to tell his own story. Aguilar has spent eight years as a captive among the Mayas. After captivity he became a translator of Hernán Cortés, and thus he was situated between two cultures, Spanish and Indian. The narrator of the second story, Vicente Valera, is a B-movie actor that comes to Latin America with the intention of escaping from his own decadent situation. Valera is a North American of Irish decent who comes to Latin America searching for his own identity. Therefore, Valera, as well as the Agular, is situated between cultures. Due to the above, this paper examines their personalities as examples of the hybrid identity, which is defined in a place that Homy Bhabha calls Third space. The Third space is a liminal, borderline place of chaotic reality inhabited by the figures that are situated on the border between (two) cultures and thus two or more identities. Therefore they are forced to legitimise themselves in the middle or in-between various cultures, borders or shores.

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