Living the forest. The epic as a literary and historiographical discourse of migration and colonization of the Lacandona

Abstract

This article explores the process of migration and colonization of
the Lacandona Jungle through the novel hacia el confin, novela de la
selva of Jesús Morales Bermúdez, and also from “El sueño de Carlos
Hernández” chapter of the book Una tierra para sembrar sueños.
Historia reciente de la Selva Lacandona, 1500-200, de Jan de Vos.
It analyzes the discursive construction, in narrative terms, of the
historical process from its representation as epic.