%0 Journal Article %T Memoria de historias menores en Basuras de Shanghai de Germ¨¢n Mar¨ªn %A Fuentes Leal %A Mariela %J Acta literaria %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-68482008000100002 %X in this article we analyze the text basuras de shanghai by germ¨¢n mar¨ªn (2007), which is broached from two complementary viewpoints. the first, from a poststructuralist perspective, that deterritorializes the traditional idea of literature, to demonstrate a new literary perception that is within what it is called minor literature by deleuze and guattari. the second, belonging to a branch of latin american literary criticism that, from sar-miento to piglia, via borges, displaces the literary latinamerican tradition and proposes a new literary perception that rejects genres and rescues the non-official stories, incorporating the irreverent use of language as a mechanism that differentiates us from other cultures and contextualizes the european theories in latin america. %K minor literature %K literary libertinism %K literary disrespect %K story of the defeats %K utilitarian reading %K story of the obligations. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-68482008000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en