The “politics of power” in Little Red Riding Hood, by Manlio Argueta

Abstract

The notion of power in the Central American narrative of the late twentieth century has gained relevance for evidencing the confrontation between dissatisfied sectors by the exploitation and marginalization to which they are subjected, where the concept of Nation is deformed due to the establishment of a discourse
totally capitalist and dictatorial. Faced with such notoriety, Manlio Argueta’s novel uses discursive mechanisms to clearly express the political and liberation commitment of the working class and university in front of a centripetal power. Based on that, the Foucault’s theory of power oriented in three vertices, the university social movements for social autonomy, the role of women in the revolutionary struggle and social development and, the referential character, is applied to the study text where it is more convenient to
observe the conformation of a subordinate power that through social practices originates one of the most violent revolutions in Latin America.