Castes, clans and miscegenation: Racial imaginaries in the narrative of Marvel Moreno

Authors

Alexander Ortega-Marin Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Keywords:

race, prejudice, stereotype, class, elite

Abstract

This article deals with notions such as race, stereotype and prejudice, in the form of caste and clan, as used by Marvel Moreno in order to express the social code of the elite in her fictional Barranquilla. These notions are discussed by following historian Jaime Jaramillo Uribe. Prejudices on skin colour, ancestry, miscegenation, women and interclass marriages are examined.

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Author Biography

Alexander Ortega-Marin, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) e Università Degli Studi di Bergamo

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Published

2025-12-08

How to Cite

Ortega-Marin, A. (2025). Castes, clans and miscegenation: Racial imaginaries in the narrative of Marvel Moreno. Revista Interdisciplinar Em Cultura E Sociedade, 452–468. Retrieved from https://periodicoseletronicos.ufma.br/index.php/ricultsociedade/article/view/28228